South Carolina Immigration Law Starts New Era of Racial Profiling: “This is legalized racial profiling, which black folks are no strangers to”

New America Media interviewed community leaders and journalists in South Carolina to get a sense of the impacts of the state’s new immigration law. The results of the law, which does not go into effect until next January 1, already are troubling. As one journalist stated bluntly, “This is legalized racial profiling, which black folks are no strangers to.”

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