A Red State Governor Just Told Trump Voters to Move to Another State if They Don’t Like His Migrant Worker Plan

One sitting Republican Governor just told Trump voters to pack up and leave.

Trump won the state with 66% of the vote in 2024 – one of his biggest margins in the country.

Now those voters’ own governor is on NPR telling them that if they don't like his plan to hand out work permits to illegal immigrants, they can go find somewhere else to live.

Kevin Stitt Owns a Bank That Lends to the War Grifters He Wants Supplied With Illegal Immigrants

Gov. Kevin Stitt went on NPR and laid out his plan to let states issue three-year work permits to illegal immigrants so companies can keep paying them instead of hiring Americans.

Construction companies need workers.

Farms need workers.

But the brass tacks – Boeing needs workers, he said.

The Military Industrial Complex got their new war and the American taxpayers who are getting soaked to pay for a conflict that’s not in our national interest but that of foreign government are going to get shut out of the few jobs that might result.

Talk about adding insult to injury.

And when NPR's Steve Inskeep asked about Americans who might object, Stitt's answer was simple: "You can choose to move to another state."

Here's what makes it worse.

Stitt owns Gateway First Bank – a lending company that finances the exact businesses he wants to supply with migrant workers: construction companies, homebuyers, and business owners.

A governor using state power to deliver cheap labor to the same clients his bank finances isn't a policy disagreement.

That's a conflict of interest.

Stitt also told Inskeep the quiet part every Chamber of Commerce Republican has always believed but rarely says this clearly: "We need more foreign workers here. We know that. We broadly know that."

He added that deporting illegal workers would "absolutely kill" some industries.

Trump's deportation push tells a different story.

Blue-collar wages – including for truckers and construction workers, the exact jobs Stitt wants to fill with migrants – are growing at the fastest clip in decades, according to the White House.

Between January and December 2025, two million native-born Americans found work while 662,000 foreign-born workers lost jobs, per White House data.

Real wages for American workers are on track to rise 4.2% in Trump's first full year.

Stitt's plan would reverse every bit of that.

How the GOP Establishment Uses Illegal Immigrant Work Permits to Crush American Workers

This isn't new.

Republican donors and business lobbies have been running this play since at least the 1980s.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce spent decades pushing amnesty and guest worker programs – not because they care about migrants, but because cheap labor means lower costs and higher stock prices.

In 2014 alone, the Chamber announced it would "pull out all stops" to push immigration reform through Congress.

In 2013, the Gang of Eight handed Marco Rubio a path to citizenship bill that Tea Party conservatives immediately killed.

The pitch never changes: these are jobs Americans won't do, industries will collapse without migrants, it's not about citizenship.

Kevin Stitt is running the same play in 2026.

He told Inskeep that Trump-voting Oklahomans "whispered" to him that illegal workers are "like family" and just need permits.

He invoked Bernie Sanders – Bernie Sanders – to frame opposition to his plan as a "Koch brothers proposition."

He told NPR that Democrat governors "are not trying to get illegals here to turn them into voters."

That is a Republican governor, on taxpayer-funded public radio, running interference for Socialist Democrats on the defining issue of the 2024 election.

Grant Newman of the Immigration Accountability Project put it plainly: these governors "are just looking at their own self-interests, and their self-interest is for stock prices to go up, for profits to go up" by slashing labor costs.

Kevin Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Workers, said Stitt and Republicans like him "view the country as an economic zone in which the purpose of the economy is to maximize profits for the shareholder class."

Now you know whose shareholders Stitt is talking about.

Stitt Is Already on His Way Out of Oklahoma Politics – and His Bank Still Benefits

Oklahoma voters who are done with Stitt's establishment priorities know he's already termed out, and GOP primary voters are actively debating who replaces him.

Stitt used his chairmanship of the National Governors Association to shield Democrat governors from a White House that had no interest in meeting with people trying to undermine Trump's agenda.

Trump publicly called him a "wiseguy."

He wasn't wrong.

Stitt isn't an outlier who stumbled into a bad take on NPR.

He's the clearest recent example of what Lynn called the "establishment section of the Republican Party" – the wing that looked at Trump's 2024 mandate and decided the lesson was to keep the cheap labor pipeline open anyway.

Trump's answer is automation, higher wages, and putting American workers first.

Stitt's answer is telling those same American workers to move to another state – while his bank keeps collecting payments from the businesses that benefit.

Oklahoma deserves better.

Sources:

• Neil Munro, "GOP Governor Kevin Stitt Says States Should Import Migrants for Boeing, Construction Jobs," Breitbart, March 2, 2026.
• "Mass Deportations Are Improving Americans' Quality of Life," The White House, January 14, 2026.
• Neil Munro, "Trump Wins Affordability: Rents Drop for Americans Because of ICE Deportations," Breitbart, January 12, 2026.
• Kevin Lynn, quoted in Neil Munro, Breitbart, March 2, 2026.
• Grant Newman, Immigration Accountability Project, quoted in Breitbart, March 2, 2026.