{"id":226,"date":"2016-02-17T16:31:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T21:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/discussin-the-states-immigration-law\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:22:21","slug":"discussin-the-states-immigration-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/discussin-the-states-immigration-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussing the state’s immigration law"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>NOVEMBER 20, 2011
\nBy Emily Mitchell \u201914, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n

For the curious and determined, verbatim copies of the new S.C. immigration law are freely available online.\u00a0However, its language is so difficult and unwieldy that\u00a0Furman students seemed to appreciate the rundown of the law provided Thursday night\u00a0by representatives of Legal Aid, a private nonprofit\u00a0firm that handles civil legal matters for the poor.<\/p>\n

The panel discussion regarding the law and its implications was sponsored by\u00a0student groups Amnesty International and International Justice Mission. Panelists were\u00a0Jada Charley, Kirby Mitchell and Susan Chang.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 immigration law was signed in July by Gov. Nikki Haley and is scheduled\u00a0to become active on January 1.\u00a0Similar bills have already passed in Indiana, Utah and Arizona.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the great strengths of our country is that our states can pass laws independently, at different times than one another,\u201d said Mitchell.\u00a0\u201cWe basically have 50 different laboratories to test the efficacy of various policies.”<\/p>\n

The federal government has already challenged states\u2019 immigration policies, arguing that the Constitution designates immigration to be\u00a0a federal rather than a state matter.\u00a0However, states have argued that the federal government has not done enough to help them deal with the problem of illegal immigration and has failed to enforce existing laws.<\/p>\n

Charley warned students that the law would have severe repercussions in the state.\u00a0For example, Section 4 of the law states that it is a felony for someone to harbor or transport illegal immigrants if they know they are illegal.\u00a0This may pose problems for shelters, churches, and aid organizations, she said.\u00a0In addition,\u00a0legal aid offices may be held liable if they assist illegal immigrants, even if those immigrants are there to ask for immigration paperwork.<\/p>\n

Mitchell closed by placing\u00a0illegal immigration in perspective with the other issues his firm deals with daily. \u201cRealize that this state is very poor, and there are a huge number of people seeking help on a variety of issues.\u00a0For example, we could be working 24 hours a day, seven\u00a0days a week, solely on foreclosure cases.\u00a0The government is spending a lot of time and money on illegal immigration, even though illegal immigration is far from the biggest problem in this state.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NOVEMBER 20, 2011
\nBy Emily Mitchell \u201914, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n

For the curious and determined, verbatim copies of the new S.C. immigration law are freely available online.\u00a0However, its\u00a0language is so difficult and unwieldy that\u00a0Furman students seemed to appreciate the rundown of the law provided Thursday night\u00a0by representatives of Legal Aid, a private nonprofit\u00a0firm that handles civil legal matters for the poor.<\/p>\n

The panel discussion regarding the law and its implications was sponsored by\u00a0student groups Amnesty International and International Justice Mission.\u00a0Panelists were\u00a0Jada Charley, Kirby Mitchell and Susan Chang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}