Forum Post: South Carolina - you go girl - and keep on going !

South Carolina, the match that started the Civil War that killed 620,000 Americans has been barred from enforcing several key areas of its new draconian law aimed to curb illegal immigration, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, the sixth state to have an immigration law stymied by the courts. The judge said South Carolina could not require police officers to check the immigration status of a person they stop for even a minor traffic violation if they have "reasonable suspicion" that the person is in the country illegally. This "state-mandated scrutiny is without consideration of federal enforcement priorities and unquestionably vastly expands the persons targeted for immigration enforcement action," The Court also barred South Carolina from making it a felony for anyone knowingly to harbor or transport an undocumented person. The state cannot require immigrants to carry federal alien registration documents because such registration is under the exclusive control of the federal government, the judge said. Federal judges have consistently blocked the attempts, halting key parts of other immigration laws passed in Alabama, Georgia, Arizona, Utah and Indiana.
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StChAoLmIaAs will probably overturn this next year.