Amid immigration battles, College Park considers giving noncitizens voting rights

The Baltimore Sun ^ | Aug 6, 2017 | John Fritze

[TChris]

Officials in College Park are weighing a plan that would make their city the largest in Maryland to give undocumented immigrants a right to vote in local elections, a long-standing practice elsewhere in the state that has drawn new scrutiny amid the simmering national debate over immigration...

[TChris]

Wadda gonna then?

Good heavens. Is that even English? ;)

[Mastador1]

But they already have voting rights.................back in their legal countries. If they want to vote here in America there is a very simple time honored method, immigrate legally fulfill all the requirements, time of residence, education, testing and apply for citizenship in America. Then after citizenship has been earned they can vote, and not before.

[Ray76]

s/b: wadda gonna do then

Street vernacular, to make a point.

[aquila48]

Does that statute define “alien”?

Is somebody here illegally an alien?

[eartick]

Says nothing about "illegal" just alien and there is a big difference.

We have aliens here on visas that can vote but ILLEGAL invaders aliens should be strung up by their gonads and then drug to the border by them. NO VOTING RIGHTS.

[Fresh Wind]

“Alien” is defined elsewhere:

8 U.S. Code § 1101 - Definitions

“The term ‘alien’ means any person not a citizen or national of the United States.”

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1101

[48th SPS Crusader]

Soon to be added mail in votes from the Home Country!

[WKUHilltopper]

Put traitors in prison.

[Zman]

So does this mean that if the state’s votes, including illegal voters’ ballots marked for federal offices, can be rejected by the feds?

[aquila48]

“The term ‘alien’ means any person not a citizen or national of the United States.”

So that makes illegals aliens which means a state or a city can allow them to vote on non-national elections if they want to.

[Mike Darancette]

I imagine there would be different ballots for non-citizens.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Not just no, but HELL NO! (And GTHOOMC!)

Maryland “Freak State” PING!