Illegal Immigration Compromise Debated

Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 - 01:10 PM Updated: 03:41 PM

The South Carolina Senate is discussing a compromise on illegal immigration, but opponents of the illegal immigration reform bill are fiibustering in the Senate in an attempt to hold up a vote on its final version.

The Senate is now talking about attaching the compromise to a second House bill. That would bypass procedural hurdles and could put the measure before the House for a simple majority vote later this week.

Seven illegal immigrants were busted in July of 2007 at the BMW plant in Greer. Immigration investigators raided the plant, and says the illegals used stolen identities to get their jobs. One was even using the identity of a nine-year-old boy. They were not BMW employees, they worked for a contractor for BMW.

A conference committee had worked out a deal on laws requiring all employers to use a federal system or South Carolina driver's licenses to verify citizenship status. But the House and Senate can't agree on how to handle the final approval of that bill and have instead spent the past week in nasty exchanges in floor speeches and news releases.
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