South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center joined with other interested organizations in filing an Amicus (friend of the court) brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which struck down the Arizona law. Click to view Brief of Amici Curiae
SC Appleseed joined with many of the same organizations in challenging South Carolina’s copycat statute. Immigration enforcement is one of the few areas of law that the Supreme Court has held to be exclusively federal in nature. Because the federal government is granted power over issues of citizenship as well as the exclusive power to enter into treaties with foreign nations by the United States Constitution, most courts have held that state statutes that attempt to enforce immigration law outside the scope of federal guidelines are unconstitutional. Both Arizona and South Carolina passed statutes that attempted to regulate immigration by mandating enforcement by state and local police departments.
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