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Legislative Updates: Immigration (May 15, 2026)

Welcome to the last immigration newsletter of this legislative session. Now that legislative session has ended, the newsletter will be published as-needed when there is a major immigration-related development in Oklahoma. Thank you all for subscribing and remaining informed on these important issues. Attacks on our immigrant family and friends will not end anytime soon,

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Want to improve reentry outcomes? Raise the minimum wage.

In 2016, voters approved State Questions 780 and 781, putting policies in place that have reduced our prison population and directed millions into much-needed community services. Nearly a decade later, Oklahoma voters on June 16 will have the opportunity to approve another measure that will further improve outcomes for justice-involved people: raising the minimum wage

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Oklahoma should not deny transgender people medically necessary care (Capitol Update)

Senate Bill 904, a carryover bill from 2025 that started as amendments to an incentive reimbursement program for long-term care facilities, was plucked from obscurity recently, gutted, and turned into a bill denying Medicaid (SoonerCare) coverage “for any gender transition procedures, regardless of whether the procedures are provided to a minor or an adult.” The

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