By Joe Angsten | Manassas
Published: February 27, 2011
A Virginia Senate sub-committee spent almost three hours on 10 illegal immigration related bills and passed two.

One was essentially no change to an existing bill, and one was a pure administrative after-the-fact procedure. They changed a bill that would require all private businesses and localities to use E-Verify for new workers to a version that matches an already Senate approved bill that just requires Virginia businesses that contract with the state to use the federal E-Verify system by the end of 2013.

I guess our senators do not want illegal immigrants working on their state contracts but do not care about illegals working in the private sector. Really, what is the difference? Does this make sense other than support for the business lobby?

Why should it take two years before requiring checking an individual’s status in the E-Verify database? Only in a bureaucracy!

The second bill to pass was to allow the Department of Motor Vehicles to cancel the valid drivers’ license of anyone who is deported. Wow! The discussion on that bill must have taken all of two minutes. They rejected two important bills. They did not approve checking the immigration status of individuals arrested, and denying illegal immigrants to attend Virginia public universities and colleges.

End result – no serious statewide illegal immigrant policy.

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