Gov Sanford leads South Carolina in tight-fisted immigration reform

April 24th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

Republican Governor, Sanford, will lean heavily on his Republican majority General Assembly to help create promised legislation that will eliminate employees who knowingly hire illegal immigrants. The only problem is deciding on what ways the state will use to indentify who is legal and who is illegal.

Southern Political Report’s article says,

The sticking point is over what method of identification the state should mandate on businesses to verify their workers are here legally.

Those favoring stricter enforcement want to require either a valid South Carolina driver’s license or to have the names and Social Security numbers be submitted to the federal government’s new E-Verify database.

Others such as the business community want to be allowed to continue to use the current method, submitting a federal I-9 form.

The debate has been on-going and a lot longer than what Gov. Sanford would have liked. Months of debate has passed and the Senate and House have been unable to agree on key reform measures. Sanford has endorsed the E-verify option and believes it gives transparency to businesses and local governments that they need and argues that the I-9 process is unreliable and ineffective.

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