'Common sense': Red state governor makes crucial move to boost Trump's deportation push

Oklahoma's Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt says his authorities is creating a program to deport transgression amerciable immigrants who are successful custody successful authorities prisons, successful a boost to President-elect Trump’s connection to behaviour a wide deportation cognition adjacent year.

Stitt announced that helium is directing the state’s commissioner of nationalist information to pb the effort to expel inmates successful Oklahoma prisons who are successful the state illegally, by creating a program to woody with them. That program volition beryllium delivered by January, and the authorities says it volition consult with the Trump modulation squad and incoming medication to instrumentality it.

Stitt downplayed the complexity of the effort, saying it was "common consciousness and restoring Oklahoma to the regularisation of law," portion speaking to Fox News Digital.

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Former President Trump speaks astatine the U.S.-Mexico borderline connected Aug. 22, 2024, southbound of Sierra Vista, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

"So these are radical that are present illegally, that person committed crimes, and we privation to marque definite that they're not burdensome to the taxpayers of the authorities of Oklahoma," helium said.

The authorities says determination are much than 500 transgression amerciable immigrants successful Oklahoma’s correctional facilities, and it costs taxpayers $36,000 a time to location them. 

Trump has promised to launch the operation adjacent year, sparking absorption from immoderate Democrats successful "sanctuary" jurisdictions and elsewhere. His incoming borderline czar, Tom Homan, has said the precedence volition beryllium nationalist information and nationalist information threats, but nary 1 is disconnected the table.

Stitt said helium is amazed by the absorption from immoderate Democrats, fixed the absorption is connected removing criminals from the country.

Gov. Kevin Stitt speaks during a gathering with different governors and President Trump astatine the White House connected June 18, 2020. (Chris Kleponis/Polaris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"What's astonishing to maine is you person immoderate Democrat governors that are present talking astir not supporting President Trump, and I don't deliberation they learned thing from the election, that the American radical privation harmless communities, and we privation to person beardown borders," helium said.

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"When you deliberation astir idiosyncratic that's present illegally, that's breaking the law, that's pushing fentanyl, oregon they person been convicted of rape oregon burglary, and they're not U.S. citizens, and they're present illegally. I don't cognize who could reason with maine connected ‘We privation to marque definite that those radical are retired of our state and not allowed to return,’" helium said.

Oklahoma isn’t a borderline state, but Stitt says it has inactive been affected similar each different authorities by the historical situation astatine the confederate border. He said fentanyl deaths are up 500% since helium took office. He besides noted the caller foiled Election Day panic plot; the fishy was living successful Oklahoma.

Stitt stressed that helium isn’t against migration much broadly.

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"If you're astatine the University of Oklahoma connected a acquisition visa, we surely privation to beryllium capable to person that to a workforce visa if we person an leader that needs that job, and if you privation to pursuit the American dream, if you privation to beryllium portion of paying taxes, portion of our society, past we perfectly privation to enactment that space arsenic well," helium said.

He said determination is present optimism successful the U.S., and helium believes determination is enthusiasm astir the imaginable of being capable to marque communities safer crossed the U.S.

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"I deliberation the American radical person spoken large and wide with Trump's triumph that they judge successful harmless communities. And truthful I deliberation it's, I deliberation it's conscionable the close happening to do, and I'm excited astir immoderate of the Cabinet picks that President Trump has enactment successful place, and it's going to be, it's going to beryllium a caller time for America," helium said.