Businesses that employ undocumented workers
A county in South Carolina will begin today to implement an ordinance which suspended the licenses of businesses that hire undocumented workers. Greenville County Ordinance, north of Columbia, the state capital, forcing business owners to sign a document committing themselves not to employ migrant workers without documents in order.
It also empowers county officials to close businesses that are considered a “nuisance to the community.”
Sid Cates, commissioner of Greenville, said Tuesday during a debate to discuss parameters of the ordinance, that “businesses that hire illegals are an inconvenience to residents.”
The regulation also stipulates that businesses must renew their operating licenses to the county annually.
A report released Tuesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center concluded that the governments of southern states have adopted a large number of local ordinance and measures to make life harder for undocumented immigrants.
Roan Garcia Quintana, executive director of the local group, Americans Have Had Enough, told the commissioners that “now more than ever we can not stop the work of Americans to illegal immigrants.” The unemployment rate in South Carolina, which in March was at 11.4 percent, is the third highest in the country.
A state law that took effect on January 1 this year penalized with fines on companies with more than one hundred employees who were found to have knowingly hired illegal.
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