South Carolina ‘Show Me Papers’ Dispute Is Settled

By Reuters/New York Times

CHARLESTON, S.C. – South Carolina said on Monday that it would no longer defend a key part of a 2011 law that required police to check the immigration status of people during stops.

State officials and a coalition of immigrant rights groups have agreed  to settle a legal dispute over the law that was centered on it’s “show me your papers” section.

In documents filed Monday in federal court in Charleston, the state attorney general, Alan Wilson, said the state interprets the provision to mean the police cannot detain someone solely to check papers after the original reason for the stop has ended.

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