Posted on 05/18/2004 10:12:13 AM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
WASHINGTON A scattered movement growing across the country would buck decades of conventional wisdom and allow non-citizens the right to vote in local elections, a move that proponents say would give immigrants the ability to directly impact government in their communities.
"Were a stronger society as a whole if we have a good quality of life and everyone participates," said Ron Hayduk, political science professor at the City College of New York and a supporter of the movement.
"There is a greater likelihood that our representatives will be responsible to everybody," Hayduk told Foxnews.com. "This is a mechanism to make sure they are held accountable."
Critics say the right to vote is a sacred privilege and responsibility of the American citizen. Giving voting rights to non-Americans "just fundamentally cheapens citizenship," said Steven Camerota.
Excerpt. Remainder of article can be found here.
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" Say It Loud. We're White And We're Proud "
That certainly was a toe-tappin' James Brown tune.
Put a fork in America, it's done. Now it's just vultures fighting over the barely-breathing near-corpse.
D.C. no longer represents native Americans period, they have not in decades.
CITIZEN VOTING ONLY!
AND NO ARNOLD YOU'LL NEVER BE THE US PRESIDENT.
Tick ... tick ... tick ...
We just had a school bond over ride vote today and I had to show my voter registration card and a photo ID and all that had to be matched against the residence address. No problem at least they knew I lived here - legally!
I'm about ready to "tune in, turn on. and drop out".
It is like Travis said, America is done. Thank goodness we have an election. Otherwise, the guest worker program would be in full swing and we would have at least 25 million more family members to feed.
LewisLynn, the expatriot option is worth looking at if you don't plan to go down in a bloody maniacal firefight like I do ("I got your whole enchilada righ'cheer! Get some! Get some!"). Just kidding. Maybe.
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TexasToo, Bush wouldn't be the first example of a second-termer switching gears. Look how Clinton delegated most of his authority in order to spend more time...no, the Wonder Weasel's not a good example.
Reagan is, though. Once free of having to give a little for the Democrats he went after the Sovs like the Terminator. His second term is also where he slipped up with the '86 Amnesty, but that was more convoluted than his detractors like to admit. Even if Bush doesn't tighten up he can't get much worse on this issue. We either choose slow entropy or ride Kerry's Swift Boat to Oblivion.
Happiness is a 75-round drum magazine backed by lots of 30-round bananas.
Expansion: Anything that resembles fiber optic glimmer eats multiple 7.62.
Sorry, I can't buy what you are selling.
Bush has been pro amnesty and pro Mexico from the very beginning of his term. His first official foreign state dinner was with V. Fox. Bush announced it and was proud of it. Bush was pushing amnesty with Mexico the first 6 to 9 months of his term. The only reason he couldn't push it through was the Democrats stopped him because he didn't include all of the illegals from other countries in the amnesty. This fiasco was going on the week prior to 9/11.
To be honest, the Democrats have stopped the Bush amnesty twice. The first time was the above amnesty and the second time Senator Byrd bottled the bill in the Senate.
I wasn't trying to "sell" you anything, just tossing my optimism out here for final trampling. Great work, I can slide this sucker between the cracks of a locked safe now.
I didn't know the extent of Bush's determination to dissolve the border. Thank you for informing me, I'll get to researching that right away (any tips would be appreciated).
Now why would a man work so hard to reduce a once-great power to a third-world cesspool? Where does the WoT fit in?
Amen!
"And We the People have the RIGHT to tell the government, at ANY level, to CEASE AND DESISTS. We need to start exercising our rights folks."
That's a fact, folks.
and not grant them to illegals who don't bother with pursuing proper citizenship at all."
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