Oklahoma’s House of Representatives passed a bill that gives police the authority to arrest illegal immigrants if they are found to be “inadmissible occupiers.” The state is the latest to attempt to close the gaps in border security left by President Biden.

The bill, which needs to be approved by the Senate and Governor, would charge anyone who entered the U.S. illegally and made their way into Oklahoma. Repeat offenders may be charged with a felony.

After shepherding through the legislation, Republican House Speaker Charles McCall said, “The federal government’s failure to address this issue and the lack leadership from the Biden Administration has turned every state in a border state.”

In Iowa, Gov. Kim Reynolds, who signed a similar bill earlier this month, imposes misdemeanor charges on migrants who were previously denied admission, deported or defy a deportation. Migrants who have certain criminal records may face felony charges.

She also said that the federal government has abandoned the field and forced her state to step in.

Last week, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey sent a letter to the Mayor of Kansas City informing him that his comments describing his city as a sanctuary city and declaring it welcoming to migrants may trigger the state law which makes it a crime to transport an illegal alien.

“Your statements are wildly reckless,” wrote Mr. Bailey to Mayor Quinton Lusc.

States are now following Texas’ lead, which enacted laws that impose misdemeanor or felony penalties on migrants who enter the state without being admitted by federal authorities.

After three years of the Biden Administration, the GOP-led States continue to be the main opponents to Mr. Biden’s immigration policies. They are rushing to tighten up interior enforcement and fill in gaps at the border.

Andrew “Art” Arthur is a former immigration court judge and now works for the Center for Immigration Studies. He said that Congress failed to push the administration to act, leaving the only other actor on stage to be the states.

He said that the states were now left to deal the problems and costs associated with the migration surge. “Each state is experiencing increased housing costs, higher education costs, and higher health care costs. Not to mention the strain on the social safety network and demand for public services.”

Take public schools. Since the beginning of fiscal year 2021, 400,000 illegal immigrants who crossed the border without their parents have been integrated into American communities. This is in addition to the hundreds of thousands of children who arrived with their families.

They are not part of the school’s plan, and their need for intensive English assistance is greater than that of other students.

States are trying to fill gaps, not only at the border, but also in federal courts, where the Biden Administration is trying to abandon their own tough asylum policy that was meant to discourage false claims.

After mounting a fierce defense of the law earlier this year, Justice Department lawyers made a shocking reversal, telling courts that they are now in settlement negotiations with the immigrant right groups who sued.

Kansas and Alabama lead a coalition that is asking the courts to allow them to defend asylum policy instead of the federal government.

In a court filing, the GOP-led state argued that they could not rely on Biden to enforce and defend the nation’s immigration laws.

The Biden administration has instructed the states to spit out.

The states also angered immigrants rights advocates by their attempts to interfere.

Marshalltown Police Chief Michael W. Tupper of Iowa’s Law Enforcement Immigration Task Force complained about Ms. Reynolds new law.

The chief stated that “the problems at the Southern border cannot be resolved from Des Moines in Iowa.” Playing politics with the public safety is never helpful. “This law will make it more difficult for law enforcement to do their job.”