{"id":14170,"date":"2019-07-18T10:58:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T15:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=14170"},"modified":"2024-01-10T14:18:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T19:18:14","slug":"d-a-king-in-insider-advantage-georgialatino-community-fund-director-state-e-verify-law-a-challenge-for-illegal-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/18\/d-a-king-in-insider-advantage-georgialatino-community-fund-director-state-e-verify-law-a-challenge-for-illegal-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"D.A. King in Insider Advantage Georgia:Latino Community Fund Director: State E-Verify law a challenge for illegal aliens #GigiPedraza"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Insider Advantage Georgia<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

July 17, 2019<\/p>\n

Latino Community Fund Director: State E-Verify law a challenge for illegal aliens<\/strong><\/p>\n

D.A. King<\/p>\n

From the \u201cthat\u2019s pretty much the point\u201d department: Georgia\u2019s E-Verify law represents a challenge for illegal aliens who want to open a business and be more visible here. This critical analysis comes from the executive director and founder of an ethnic-based Decatur group headed by Gigi Pedraza.<\/p>\n

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Gigi Pedraza<\/p><\/div>\n

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Pedraza, of the Latino Community Fund<\/a>, was featured in the Saporta Report<\/em> last month outlining the need \u201cto understand the needs of Latinx Entrepreneurs\u201d\u00a0and highlighting a study her organization put out last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUndocumented Latinos and other undocumented immigrants face perhaps the biggest of these challenges before they are even able to start a business. In 2011, the state Legislature passed\u00a0House Bill 87<\/a>, the Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act<\/a>. The law required evidence that an applicant for a business license or other documents needed to run a business has approval to use the federal work authorization program\u201d wrote Pedraza. She means the no-cost E-Verify system.<\/p>\n

She went on to incorrectly explain to Saporta\u2019s readers that use of E-Verify<\/a> somehow creates a citizenship requirement for business owners. It doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Pedraza in the Saporta report: \u201cEssentially, this instituted a citizenship requirement for Georgia business owners to operate lawfully, pay taxes and act as a visible part of their local communities and economies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Employers need not be U.S. citizens to be E-Verify users, but there is<\/em> a requirement for a Social Security Number to register as a user, making it difficult for an illegal alien to receive authorization to use a federal system designed to help keep black market labor out of the workforce and to protect wages for legal workers.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, a goal for the Pedraza\u2019s enterprise is to start a legislative process to end the state\u2019s E-Verify requirement to obtain a business license: \u201cReducing this burdensome licensing restriction would allow additional Latino businesses to start and flourish, powered by individuals who call Georgia home and have dedicated most of their lives to build and contribute to this country\u201d wrote Pedraza.<\/p>\n

New to this writer, the openly restricted Latino Community Fund requires that other non-profit organizations<\/a> meet two of the following descriptions for membership:<\/p>\n

* Be Latino-led (Executive Director or CEO)
\n* Be governed by a majority Latino board of directors
\n* Serve a majority Latino client population (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n