Posted on 11/03/2023 9:11:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If you think offering migrants luxury hotel rooms, free meals, laundry service, transportation, health care, and immigration lawyers is excessive, just wait until they can vote.
Democrats are pushing to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections in New York City, Boston, and other municipalities, and statewide in Connecticut.
The number of migrants pouring across the southern border has hit a record high, according to data released on Oct. 21. Illegal immigrant crossings soared 21 percent over the previous month. On a yearly basis, the figure hit 2.48 million.
Democrats may feign shock and distress. Don’t be fooled. Democrats see these newcomers as their guarantee of a permanent voting majority in local elections. Not years from now, after the newcomers become citizens. Right now.
New York Mayor Eric Adams’s rhetoric is typical. He warns that the overwhelming number of migrants arriving—currently 16,000 to 17,000 a month—“will destroy New York City,” but he’s also leading the legal effort to turn migrants into voters.
Mr. Adams and other New York Democrats pushed President Joe Biden to expedite work authorizations for them. They said it’s about making migrants self-sufficient. Maybe, but Democrats have another powerful motive.
If you read the fine print of New York City’s “Our City, Our Vote” law, enacted in December 2021, it says that anyone with a work authorization who has been in the city for a mere 30 days can vote, even if they entered the country illegally.
President Biden’s recent action fast-tracking work authorizations for Venezuelan border crossers, who make up about 41 percent of recent arrivals in New York City, will make tens of thousands of them eligible to vote under New York City’s new law, as soon as they obtain their working papers.
That is, if New York City’s voting law is allowed to go into effect—a big “if.” The law is tied up in court.
A group of Republicans led by Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella sued, arguing the state constitution grants the right to vote to “every citizen.” A Staten Island judge bought that argument and struck down the law, but Mr. Adams’s law department is appealing that ruling in a higher court, arguing that the state constitution does not specifically prohibit noncitizens from voting.
Mr. Adams has a shot at winning. Vermont’s top court ruled in favor of allowing noncitizens to vote in municipal elections, even though the Vermont constitution restricts voting in state elections to U.S. citizens.
California and Maryland also already permit municipalities to enfranchise noncitizens.
The Boston City Council is debating allowing newcomers to vote, including migrants who recently came across the border illegally and have temporary protected status.
In Washington, D.C., Democrats rammed through a local law in November 2022 allowing noncitizens, even foreign embassy employees, to vote, as long as they’ve resided in the city for 30 days.
In Connecticut, Democrats want to amend the state’s constitution to allow noncitizens to vote in state and local elections. Amending the state’s charter is a multiyear complicated process, and it’s facing stiff opposition from the Republican minority in the Legislature. House Minority Leader Rep. Vincent Candelora called noncitizen voting “outrageous.”
For New York City, “suicidal” is more accurate.
Adding some 800,000 noncitizens to the 5 million registered voters in the city will have an effect, even if newcomers don’t always vote as a block.
Nora Moran of the United Neighborhood Houses, a New York nonprofit, predicted that noncitizen voting will make political leaders “more responsive” to the needs of newcomers and their neighborhoods.
To the extent “more responsive” means spending more, that will be a disaster.
City spending on migrants already exceeds the budgets of the fire, sanitation, and parks departments combined.
“We are past our breaking point,” Mr. Adams cautioned two months ago, adding that New Yorkers will be facing cuts in every type of city service to foot the bill.
Letting noncitizens vote will dilute the political power of all other New Yorkers, who are the real victims of President Biden’s open borders.
Tell Mr. Adams to withdraw his legal appeal and stop pushing for noncitizen voting.
Voting is a privilege reserved for citizens. Once immigrants follow the law, become naturalized, and swear loyalty to this nation and its Constitution, they should be entitled to vote. Not before.
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And you don’t need to guess which party the illegal aliens 👽 will vote for.
After all our tradition of becoming a legal citizen in order to have the precious privilege of voting, now this travesty.
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And thus, Jury Duty becomes the only “advantage” of “citizenship”.
We really screwed up in 1865. We should have killed all the Democrats then when they were beat.
Just more proof that the DemonRats hate America.
dems are pulling people from outside the country, millions of them, to replace the votes of citizens
this is illegal and a direction Constitutional violation
incrementalism At work! 1st local, then state and finally nation elections! The permanent Democrat rule!
“...We should have killed all the Democrats...”
Soon, very soon. After the collapse comes, it’s payback time. The French revolution will pale in comparison to what is coming.
Nothing less than 20 million dead, that’s what Weather Underground founder Bill Ayers said about the way to destroy capitalism in the USA. The same will be said about the democrat party. /spit
Translation: there'll be 500,000 wetbacks voting in PA next year.
That should be considered Treason.
“Sanctuary city”, my a@#!!!
The Liberal message is so dated and economically/socially unworkable that there is no longer a way to con ENOUGH Americans into accepting it, much less voting for it.
The non citizen illegal voters are required to replace the black voters that have fled the plantation
To mention such a gambit is admission of deep panic
Do businesses allow their employee’s to vote on their compensation packages? Why do we let Public Employee’s vote??
Wonder how you excommunicate a state? Surely there must be or someway we got several that need to go.
Make the democrat party illegal OH WAIT they already are only thing left is to round them up.
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