South Carolina’s new immigration law has local businesses worried about enforcement

Posted on: June 19th, 2008
Filed Under: [ Business ] [ Immigration ] [ Blogante Business ] [ South Carolina ]
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“The state legislature successfully passed what’s being touted as the toughest immigration law in the nation earlier this month, but questions remain as to how it will be enforced.

The measure requires businesses to either check the status of new hires using E-Verify — a controversial federal program used to determine whether workers are legal — or make sure those workers have valid state driver’s licenses or one from states similarly strict when it comes to obtaining a license. “*

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