Thread: South Carolina Reform Passes Legislature, Governor Will Sign

[quote="Tim Smith, The Greenville News (click masthead)"]
Immigration reform passes Legislature
[size=109]Tim Smith, STAFF WRITER, May 29, 2008

COLUMBIA -- After years of wrestling with the issue, the Legislature today gave final approval to a compromise plan for immigration reform that will require all employers in the state to verify the legal status of new workers. The House voted 94-16 to concur with a proposal approved by the Senate this week, sending the bill to Gov. Mark Sanford, who said he would sign it. "Working together, we've put forth a bill that will make a difference when it comes to illegal immigration in South Carolina, and I look forward to signing it when it reaches my desk," Sanford said in a statement afterward. The bill requires all employers, no matter their size, to verify the legal status of their new workers beginning next summer, though businesses with fewer than 100 workers would have until the summer of 2010 to do so, and to use the federal electronic verification database or state driver's licenses.

Employers who knowingly and intentionally hire illegal workers face a suspension or revocation of their ability to operate in the state under the bill, which grants each employer an imputed business license that can then be acted upon if companies violate the law. Today's vote came after months of public sniping by House and Senate members over the issue that only ended when leaders from both chambers negotiated a compromise in the last week and then asked their members to approve it. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Harrison said passage of immigration reform was a "long time coming." "I think what we have done today is protect the businesses of South Carolina, the employees of South Carolina and the taxpayers of South Carolina," he said.

[color=blue][b]House Speaker Bobby Harrell called the bill the strongest immigration reform in the nation. “This bill does more than any other plan in the country to address the hundreds of millions of dollars illegal immigration is costing states each year,â€

Too bad it's only for new workers....illegals are getting grandfathered in at every step.

Ya that is a huge problem!!

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http://www.alipac.us/article3233.html

A Victory! SC Passes one of toughest illegal immigration crackdown laws in US!

Strong Illegal Immigration bill passes South Carolina Legislature

ALIPAC NOTE: We would like to thank the ALIPAC Activists from across America that worked hard to support this effort in SC during three separate activist alerts. Americans coast to coast took time to help our ALIPAC supporters that fought hard from the ground in SC. We would like to thank the SC Legislature for finally getting the job done in one the hardest fought battles in the nation.

We did not know if we would ever get a bill out of SC as the battle raged for months!

We offer our very special thanks and commendations to Roan Garcia-Quintana of Americans Have Had Enough Coalition (americanshavehadenough.org), Lee Canaday of NumbersSC.com, and our own ALIPACer Terry Funderburk aka 'The Lone Prostester'. These gentlemen worked very hard on this legislation.

Now, it is up to our extensive network of ALIPAC Activists to make this count. Please read the following article and send copies to all of your state legislators immediately.

I see a LOT ..of loopholes in this..!

The momentum is building!!!!!!!!!! Let's keep the pressure on.

Originally Posted by jonhaloi

Too bad it's only for new workers....illegals are getting grandfathered in at every step.

And not till next summer.

I guess this means fewer cheap-labor illegal aliens to tend the grounds of his favorite golf courses, eh? Think Gramnesty will be putting out a press release? Naw! He'll be meeting with the ACLU and LaRaza to plan a LAWSUIT to overturn this law. The Will of the People be damned; what Teddy Kennedy wants, Gramnesty is only too happy to provide! Did you send Teddy a case of Chivas while he was in the hospital, Lindsey?

Love the negativity on this site.....it's sooooo productive

yeah for SC..i wish more states would do the same...we passed a tough immigration bill last year..opponants said it would ruin our economy as illegals were too important..it didn't and they werent' our own democratic governor was against it...he is also a super delegate for Obama dispite the fact that OK dem's voted overwhelmingly for Hillary..i don't think he will be re-elect. i hope not.

2007 May 13 Sunday
Oklahoma Passes Law Against Illegal Aliens
Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry, a Democrat, very unenthusiastically signed into law legislation that makes Oklahoma's laws against illegal immigrants the toughest in the nation. Henry had no choice because the law passed by veto-proof margins.

State lawmakers praised Henry’s action. Supporters had urged Henry to sign the measure into law since it received final passage in a bipartisan 84-14 vote by the state House last week. The bill was approved 41-6 by the Senate last month.

“This important new immigration reform ensures we’re upholding the rule of law in Oklahoma. Our citizens deserve nothing less,â€