Giving money to lawyers

The South Carolina legislature is debating an anti-immigrant proposal modeled after Arizona.  One of its components is actually to direct people to sue any local government that they feel is not enforcing it.  So one of the poorest states in the U.S. actively wants people to drain the state's own resources and give it directly to lawyers.

You can get a good sense of the level of discussion by the fact that there is a self-proclaimed "Confederate Cuban" who believes that undocumented immigrants are criminals.