SC Senator Tom Davis on SC / AZ Immigration bill

SC Senator Tom Davis has a piece at Islandpacket.com titled “SC should follow Arizona’s lead on immigration”

here’s an excerpt:

What does all of this mean for us in South Carolina, and how should our state legislature respond?

Well, first it should fully fund the tough illegal immigration law that it passed in 2008. Private businesses must now comply with stringent employee background checks, and this year’s budget provides $2 million to pay for the state audits that will ensure compliance.

But our state legislature has not funded the part of the law that calls for a contract between the feds and the S.C. Law Enforcement Division to provide local governments with the training and facilities to arrest and process illegal aliens. Beaufort County Sheriff P. J. Tanner, has shown tremendous initiative in this regard, but he has limited resources. The state needs to properly fund this initiative.

Finally, South Carolina’s legislature should enact an Arizona-type law to further empower local enforcement of federal immigration laws. I am a primary sponsor of such a bill (S. 1446) that was filed last May. We should not be deterred in the least by the federal government’s recent challenge of Arizona’s law. The opinions of each and every federal court decision on this issue support the authority of Arizona to enact its law. The current lawsuit is federal bullying, pure and simple.

Let Senator Davis know how much you appreciate his stand on immigration = tom@senatortomdavis.com

Then … email this article to YOUR Senator and ask him to support Senator Davis and S. 1446.

July 13, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Immigration, State

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