Obenshain bill to go after local businesses employing illegals to go before committee
From a release:
RICHMOND - On Tuesday, January 29, Senator Mark Obenshain's (RHarrisonburg) Illegal Immigration Bill, SB 782, is scheduled to be heard by a special subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Courts of Justice.
The bill is a measure that would make a federal conviction for hiring illegal aliens grounds for suspension of a business license issued by the Commonwealth. This change will serve as an effective deterrent to the unlawful hiring of illegal aliens.
Commenting on the bill, Obenshain said, "This is a reasonable measure targeting those employers who have been found guilty of intentionally violating federal immigration laws. These are clearly employers who we have no interest in protecting, for they are not playing by the same rules as their law-abiding competitors"