INDIANA AND SOUTH CAROLINA UNDER ATTACK FROM DOJ FOR SEEKING TO CORRECT ILLEGAL ALIEN PROBLEMS

INDIANA’S IMMIGRATION LAW ON HOLD 

Indiana’s Attorney General Greg Zoeller asked Thursday that both cases challenging the state’s immigration law be put on hold until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a similar case from Arizona. Zoeller’s action came less than two days after a lawsuit was filed by Union Benefica Mexicana (a non-profit group in East Chicago that helps Latino residents).

A federal judge had already blocked two portions of Indiana’s law after another lawsuit was filed back in May by the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Law Center. The Mexican Benefits Union is challenging two other parts of the law left intact: the section penalizing employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants and the section requiring people applying for day labor jobs to fill out employment authorization forms.

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PARTS OF S.C. IMMIGRATION LAW BLOCKED BY FEDS
 

U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel blocked portions of the South Carolina immigration law on Thursday. Among the sections blocked are those giving state and local police authority to check for immigration documents and another making it a crime to harbor or transport an illegal immigrant saying these actions would conflict with federal immigration law. Gergel also agreed with the U.S. Department of Justice, which sued to block the law, that the state’s detention of illegal immigrants could hurt international relations.

Gergel’s decision could factor in the U.S. Supreme Court’s review next year of Arizona’s immigration laws which provided the model for South Carolina’s legislative crackdown on illegal immigration.

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