SC illegal immigration audit turns to small firms

[Jeanfromfillmore]

This would be nice if all states would start to require that it be done.

SC illegal immigration audit turns to small firms
The Associated Press
CHARLESTON -- South Carolina officials will begin auditing small businesses that tend to hire foreign workers to make sure all employees are in the country legally.
The audits will begin July 1 for small companies, but have been going on for almost a year for larger employers.
State Labor, Licensing and Regulation Department spokesman Jim Knight told The Post and Courier of Charleston for a story Sunday that 94 percent of big companies are complying with a 2008 law designed to reduce the number of illegal immigrants in the work force.
Knight says he doesn't expected the thousands of companies with fewer than 100 workers to have that kind of compliance.
A study by the Pew Hispanic Center estimates that 40,000 to 100,000 illegal immigrants live in South Carolina.

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[Twoller]

Audits should emphasize employers who are themselves either here legally, or naturalized citizens. Especially where illegals speak languages other than English, the people who hire them must speak the language of the country they come from and this is going to be easiest for employers who are either here legally or naturalized citizens.

The penalty for anyone who is either a naturalized citizen or here legally who hires an illegal should be deportation and loss of citizenship if they are naturalized.