omg... Bill introduced in SC "virtually the same as Arizona's"

[G_j]

damn, I'm 45 min. from Greeville (but in NC)

http://www2.wspa.com/news/2010/apr/29/4/greenville-lawmaker-proposes-immigration-bill-simi-ar-120770/

Greenville Lawmaker Proposes Immigration Bill Similar To Arizona's

Rep. Eric Bedingfield, R-Greenville, introduced a bill in the SC House Thursday that he says is virtually the same as Arizona's controversial new immigration law.

By Jonathan Carlson and Robert Kittle
Published: April 29, 2010

South Carolina could be the next stop for protests, international attention and controversy over immigration.

On Thursday, Rep. Eric Bedingfield, R-Greenville, introduced a bill that he says is "virtually the same" as the Arizona immigration law that was signed recently.

"It provides a procedure for verifying a person's immigration status under certain circumstances and provides for the arrest of a person suspected of being present in the United States unlawfully," Bedingfield says.

He says it wouldn't usually be used by police to stop someone, but would more likely be used to check the legal status of someone who had been stopped or arrested for something else.

The bill faces a tough fight to become law this year.

..more..

[Justitia]

1. Do they think any publicity is good publicity? Copycat? Teabagger grandstanding?

At least it helps us out the racists.

"Run it up the flag pole, see who salutes!"

[mzteris]

2. Tourism helps keep SC afloat -

I don't think they could withstand the threat of convention/tourist boycotts...

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. His fellow members of the legislature

are watching what happens in AZ... and I am betting they will not go there, mostly because of the economic cost in AZ.

[The Damned]

4. Who'd have thunk it?

SC doing something stupid???

[G_j]

7. they haven't passed it yet, of course

the article says it would take a tough fight.
In the case of SC, I'm not reassured.

[Kceres]

5. Colorado is about to follow.

Is there no end to the stupid?

[Faux pas]

6. And the stench of ignorant intolerance spreads across the land...

sounds like there might be a whole lotta seceding going on. Let me be among the first to wave buh bye.

[EFerrari]

8. Spreads across the swing states?

:shrug: