Reply #12: The article says that they have been auditing the larger employers, [View All]

and have had 89 violations (some of them technical) out of 1,500 companies.

There is no information on the diversity of the undocumented workers.

Businesses are required to accept as ID either a S. C. driver's license, which requires proof of citizenship or legal residency, a driver's license from one of the 26 states reported as having driver's license requirements at least as strict as South Carolina's, or the company must use E-verify, the voluntary federal system. I don't know how much E-verify costs, if anything.

Personally, I'm not surprised that S.C. is doing this. As you pointed out, their history is not exactly nice. The other issue they have down there is very high unemployment. The textile industry used to be a huge employer there until the China trade deal. The textile industry moved to China. No surprise there.