South Carolina Wants Faith Groups To Be Liable If Refugees They Support Commit A Crime

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South Carolina Wants Faith Groups To Be Liable If Refugees They Support Commit A Crime

by Jack Jenkins at Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2016/03/25/3763641/south-carolina-syrian-refugees/

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Religious leaders are speaking out against a new South Carolina bill that would make faith-based groups who “sponsor” refugee resettlement legally liable if an asylum-seeker commits a crime — a move opponents say is just a thinly veiled attempt to discourage assisting Syrian refugees.

The bill, which passed by the South Carolina state senate this week in a 39-6 vote, is split into two sections. The first would require the “sponsor” of a refugee — or the group helping them resettle in the state — to register them in database operated by the South Carolina Department of Social Services and available only to law enforcement. But it’s the second provision that has Palmetto State faith leaders particularly up in arms: the proposed law would make sponsors — most of whom are religious institutions — legally liable for any and all crimes committed by the refugee.

“A refugee's sponsor shall be strictly liable to a person if…the refugee acted in a reckless, wilful, or grossly negligent manner, committed an act of terrorism as defined by Section 16-23-710(18), or committed one of the violent crimes defined in Section 16-1-60, that resulted in physical harm or injury to a person or damage to or theft of real or personal property,” the bill reads.





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[applegrove]

1. But people who make and market assault rifles for the public are not responsible for

the actions of anyone who buys them - right.

[tabasco]

2. Well, didn't Jesus say in the Sermon on the Mount

to have good insurance before tending to the poor and needy?

[tabasco]

3. Every time I read one of these articles about the goddamn hateful, backward fucks

in South Carolina and the rest of the goddamn South, I wish Sherman had razed the fucking place to the ground or else we had just let them have their own shithole country.

My apologies to the good people in the South but I am sick and fucking tired and not in the fucking mood for this shit.

[CherokeeDem]

4. Not just the South...

these "goddamn hateful, backward fucks" you so graciously want to assign to the South exists elsewhere as well.

I am a native of South Carolina and will likely be relocating there within the year. Not everyone there is like this... so stop saying these things and you wouldn't need to issue an apology.

[tabasco]

7. There is a higher concentration of hateful, backwards fucks

in the South. Can you deny it? I hope you're working to effect change in your home state.

[CherokeeDem]

8. Yes, I can....

but you'd just go on thinking it, so why bother.

It's very obvious hateful, backward fucks are everywhere.....

[ohnoyoudidnt]

5. By that logic, should gun sellers be liable if one of their customers commit murder?

There are a lot more gun buyers who kill than refugees.

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6. Should political groups be liable for the criminal acts of the people they help elect?

So that when this nincompoop law gets struck down as unconstitutional, the Super PACs who elected the nitwits who voted for this stupid law are on the hook for the legal expenses, instead of having to use public money taken from all the taxpayers of South Carolina.