Oklahoma state representative Justin Humphrey is sorry he proposed a bill that would have designated gang members of Hispanic descent—and no other racial or ethnic group—as terrorists. But he’s also not sorry and wants people to know he was “not wrong.”
Responding to the outcry over the text of his legislation, HB 3133—which proposes that gang members “of Hispanic descent living within the state of Oklahoma” who have been convicted of “gang-related offenses” be deemed a terrorists—Humphrey told KFOR, “I apologize for just using the word Hispanic, but I was not wrong. Again, these are Hispanic. Reality is they are Hispanic. There’s nothing to be ashamed with.” He said he plans to change “Hispanic” to “undocumented illegals” in the bill. He also said that Chinese nationals, in addition to Mexican cartels, are to blame for the fentanyl problem in Oklahoma he is trying to address, though only people of Hispanic descent were specified in the bill.
Mark Woodward, the public information officer for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, told the outlet, “All of the illicit fentanyl that’s absolutely responsible for this epidemic across the United States is coming in through the borders by the cartels and moved across through their pipelines around the US. But China is the world’s biggest exporter of fentanyl and fentanyl precursors. The Chinese are mass-producing the precursors, and they ship them either directly into the US where they’re purchased by cartels.”
Oklahoma state senator Michael Brooks, who founded the Oklahoma Latino legislative caucus, told the Guardian, “To have the law treat people differently based on their race or ethnicity only creates greater divides. The bill is fatally flawed, and I don’t know if there’s much of a way to be able to change it.”
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