The US Department of justice filled a court injunction against an immigration law in South Carolina on Monday by saying that the measure passed in South Carolina this summer is unconstitutionally pre-empts federal authority. But the United State constitution forbids South Carolina from supplanting the federal government’s immigration regime with its own State-specific immigration policy.

The South Carolina law, passed this year by a Republican-led state legislature, requires police to check the immigration status of people they suspect of being in the country illegally after stopping them for another offense. The opponent of South Carolina says that the Federal government has failed to sufficiently stop the flow of illegal immigration into the country, forcing state to take action and this will result in the invitation of racial profiling.

The Department of Justice said that if the South Carolina’s law is allowed to go into effect, so it would undermine and disrupt federal agencies by existing immigration operations, diverting resources and attention from the dangerous aliens whom the federal government targets as its top enforcement priority. And It will cause the detention and harassment of authorized visitors, immigrants and citizens who do not have or carry identification documents specified by the statute,

The United State government said the legislation is targeting illegal immigrants passed by South Carolina and other states so that it could result in damage to the United States’ foreign relations and impede fair implementation of federal immigration laws.

US Sues South Carolina over Immigration Law

Legal news report by Dushyant Tiwari