Via IslandPacket.com:

The first phase of a new state law designed to prevent the hiring of illegal immigrants by government entities takes effect Jan. 1. Other phases that apply to private businesses will get underway in mid-2009.

 

Over the next year and a half, South Carolina gradually will begin pushing all employers to use the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's e-verify program, a Web-based system run by the federal government.