Thursday, March 6, 2014

South Carolina drops defense of controversial immigration law

[JURIST] The South Carolina Attorney General's Office [official website] said [text, PDF] Monday that it would comply with a court order [text, PDF] enjoining it from enforcing the controversial "show me your papers" provision of the state's recently enacted immigration law [SB 20 text]. In what is being called a victory for immigrants' rights, the state will no longer defend the provision that allowed police officers to demand proof of citizenship or legal residency during routine traffic stops and to...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/03/south-carolina-drops-defense-of-controversial-immigration-law.php

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