It's no surprise Spanish speakers are here and have been for quite a while, but for some officers, it's another layer of protection they have to learn, because of language barriers.
"If you meet the criteria, you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law," President Barack Obama said during a prime-time speech Thursday night.
Across the nation and even here in Oklahoma, Hispanics gathered to watch their lives change in a matter of minutes as the president announced millions of undocumented people would be safe from deportation.
It has local police departments worried about language barriers.
"Since there is Spanish speakers here, especially as many as there is now a days, we probably need to learn a little bit of it," Cpl. Paul Harmon said.
"Yes, I would've stayed in jail, because we didn't understand each other," Jose Menchú Garcia said in Spanish.
"It's all because I couldn't speak English, it cost me," Menchú Garcia says.
"Every officer needs to learn different languages and increase their education," Cpl. Harmon said.