Thread: Manassas Cracks Down On Business Licenses

Manassas Cracks Down On Business Licenses

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By Greg L | 8 September 2007 | Illegal Aliens, Manassas Politics | 8 Comments

The Manassas Journal-Messenger picked up on new business licensing requirements that went into effect on Labor Day in today’s edition. This closes the potential loophole of having an illegal alien start his own business and avoid the employee verification process that would be required if the person had been hired as an employee somewhere. This isn’t a terribly frequent occurrence, as far as I can tell, but it does happen.

From the MJM:

From Labor Day on, those contractors and subcontractors who want to do business in the city will need to provide one of 10 documents that establish both identity and residency status in the United States, or two of 16 documents that establish both identity and residency status.

This is a good step. What would make it better would be that as a condition of getting any contract with the City, all employees must be screened with the E-Verify system. We’re going to catch the business owners now, but we also need to ensure that their employees have legal presence also. If this were done in the state and local governments, we would in one fell swoop remove the largest employment source for illegal aliens in the Commonwealth.

That’s right. Your taxpayer dollars are the biggest source of funds for illegal aliens in the state.

Only one of?

I am currently sitting in a Costa Coffee in Muscat, Oman (in the Middle East) waiting for my work visa to clear the Ministry of Education. I have a pplied for an English teaching position here. In the course of the application, I had to certify, translate and acquire documents from my 12 years of living abroad including:

1. proof of employment for all positions in the past 12 years
2. copies of ALL pages of my passport
3. medical certificate proving I have no communicable diseases
4. signed contract offer from the school
5. translations and originals of documents not in English (I worked in Korea for 7 years and had to have all the work verifications transclated into English)
6. original diplomas and transcripts ( I have diplomas from 4 institutions in the US, Britain and Australia)
7. all of documents in 6, above, had to be notarized, notarization verified in the county of notary, authenticated by the State in which they were issued and then authenticated by the US State Department in Wash. D.C.

After 6 weeks of gathering these documents, I had 65 pages, with various stamps, signatures, verifications, notaries and authentifications attached. The total cost me about US$500 out of pocket, not to mention the time.

I have been sitting here in Muscat, Oman on a toursit visa waiting for 3 weeks (on top of the 6 weeks of gathering the documents) waiting for my official WORK VISA to be issued.

And I have to get a blood test before they will issue the VISA.

Why don't we make everyone who wants to work in the USA do the same thing? With a wall on the border and the above documents required, every illegal SOB would be out of the country. The Sultanate of Oman does, with much less money than the US has.

If Oman can do it, the US certainly could.

I could not agree with you more.

Unfortunately, were anyone here to try to implement such rigid measures, they would be in court being sued by the ACLU and every other entity under the sun amid allegations that such expectations were discriminatory based upon appearance and speech, and would present an unfair and undue hardship for those who could not produce the required documentation.

It just seems that what other places do as a matter of routine, such as what you have described in Oman, the US doesn't even dare to attempt without finding itself on the business end of legal challenges.