Thread: Let Aliens Vote: Activists

LET ALIENS VOTE: ACTIVISTS
By FRANKIE EDOZIEN

February 20, 2007 -- Immigrant-rights activists yesterday renewed their push to allow legal noncitizens to vote in the Big Apple.

A bill that would grant permanent residents and other legal immigrants the right to vote in municipal elections has been stalled in the City Council since last year.

"More than 50,000 adult noncitizen taxpayers in those two districts are disenfranchised by citizenship voting laws," said Cheryl Wertz, of New Immigrant Community Empowerment, referring to today's special election for council seats in Brooklyn and Staten Island.

Councilman Charles Barron (D-Brooklyn), the sponsor of the Voting Rights Restoration Act, said that years ago, when immigrants were mostly European, they had voting rights.

"Then when the complexion of immigrants changes, then all of a sudden, the laws change," he said.

Ron Hayduk, a CUNY professor, concurred, saying immigrants voted in national elections from 1776 through 1926.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02202007/ne ... dozien.htm


(Apologize if this has already been posted. Search engine wouldn't work. Didn't see it on visual.)

If those non-citizens want to vote, then they need to just go home ie being the homeland they came from.

No special privilages for illegal aliens. They are not citizens and have no rights under the Constitution.

Dixie

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LET ALIENS VOTE: ACTIVISTS

YA RIGHT, IN YOUR DREAMS!!

Wrote letter to my city councilman.
This is so very disturbing. We are seeing the undoing of the United States right before our very eyes.

Obviously these people are crazy! Allowing illegal aliens to vote would
cause complete havoc.

Hey, why limit voting to non-citizens? While we're at it, why don't we let the villagers of equatorial Africa, the wild men of Borneo and the mafia chiefs of Moscow have a vote?