Thursday evening, the Latino Association of South Carolina gathered outside of North Charleston City Hall to protest Florida Senate Bill 1718, a law that restricts businesses from hiring undocumented immigrants.

“We as Latinos, we are in the state of South Carolina and all over this country. We are now seeing a change with the governor of Florida trying to implement this law called SB1718," said Diana Salazar-Guzman, the president of the Latino Association of South Carolina. "Which is unfair to the families being separated and the discrimination that comes with that law, and these families having to get their roots from their homes and having to move to another state."

Diana Salazar-Guzman says even though this legislation is in Florida, it's a national problem.

"We need to stay unified as the Latinos that we are, undocumented or not, we are a part of the melting pot of America," continued Salazar-Guzman. “We do not want to be Florida, we don’t want to go backwards we want to go forward. We need a change in our legislation office.

Activists want people to know the time to act is now.

"It’s our job, it’s our duty to speak out for the injustice in America regardless of what the ethnicity is," said Pastor Thomas Dixon. "Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere, and until we all collectively fight against injustice, what we’re doing is allowing injustice to thrive."