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Illegal voters could play role in key Senate race

Audit finds up to 1,425 registered N.C. voters 'likely non-citizens'

Published: 12 hours ago Leo Hohmann About | Email | Archive Leo Hohmann is a news editor for WND. He has been a reporter and editor at several suburban newspapers in the Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina, areas and also served as managing editor of Triangle Business Journal in Raleigh, North Carolina.




Thom Tillis, right, with Lindsey Graham (center) and John McCain at a campaign event in North Carolina. Tillis, the current state House speaker, is running for U.S. Senate against incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan.


Oh, the irony of it all.

In one of the nation’s closest and most important U.S. Senate races, North Carolina incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., is up against Republican Thom Tillis, the current speaker of the state House.

Polls show the two in a virtual dead heat, with Hagan’s ties to President Obama’s policies no doubt hurting her in the conservative-leaning Tar Heel state.

But Tillis has his own problems, one of which is his shaky record on illegal immigration and ties to moderate Republicans such as Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who supports amnesty for illegal aliens and Common Core national education standards.

In a recent audit of 10,000 registered voters with questionable citizenship status, the N.C. State Board of Elections found that up to 1,425 registered voters in North Carolina are “likely non-citizens.”

“It’s a travesty that you could have non-citizens negate the votes of citizens in our nation,” said Rep. Chris Millis, one of the Republican state House members who requested the audit.

The 1,425 likely non-citizens won’t be removed from the voter rolls, but if they cast votes Nov. 4 their ballots will be challenged, Millis said.


Pivotal role in close race
The irony of the matter is this: Illegal-immigrant voters could play a pivotal role in a close race, the outcome of which will help determine whether Republicans take control of the U.S. Senate, and the Republican candidate, Tillis, is seen as fragile on the immigration issue. He could even have helped cause his own demise, according to immigration activist William Gheen.

“Tillis is in a position where he may lose the most expensive Senate race in North Carolina’s history because of illegal immigrant voters that he helped to protect as speaker of the North Carolina House,” said Gheen, who lives in North Carolina and heads up Americans for Legal Immigration PAC.

“Tillis as speaker stopped every piece of legislation his fellow Republicans offered to try to curtail illegal immigration in North Carolina,” Gheen said.

Tillis may still get elected because of the power of the anti-Obama wind blowing through his state. And even if he loses, the chances are it won’t be because of illegal alien voters, thanks to the efforts of conservative state legislators like Millis, who requested the state audit its voter rolls and flag potential non-citizens.

But if Tillis loses, he very well may be haunted by his stance on immigration issues. His detractors on the right will point to his connections to amnesty-supporting Republicans. They will cite his recent appearance with McCain, Graham and Jeb Bush. Bush even trumpeted amnesty while stumping for Tillis in North Carolina Sept. 24, doing Tillis no favors.

While standing beside Tillis in Greensboro, N.C., Bush said Republicans ought to pass comprehensive immigration reform, also called “a pathway to citizenship” and “amnesty,” if they take control of the Senate, the New York Times reported.
Tillis tried to backpedal from any association with Bush’s views.

“You have to make it clear that amnesty shouldn’t be on the table,” Tillis said at the Greensboro event, referring to how he would deal with immigrants already in the country illegally. “That doesn’t negate any opportunity to provide some with legal status and other things, but you only do that after you seal the borders and you make the problem no longer grow.”

That sounds an awful lot like amnesty to tea party conservatives like Gheen, because the “legal status and other things” Tillis was advocating are likely to mean drivers’ licenses, work permits and all the things an immigrant needs to carry on life in the United States. Hence, the lack of enthusiasm over Tillis’ candidacy and throwing a damper on his ability to get out the conservative vote. If conservatives don’t see enough of a difference between Tillis and the incumbent Democrat, many of them might stay home, indirectly helping Hagan win re-election.


Illegal immigration top concern

A recent Gallup poll found that illegal immigration is now the top concern among Republican voters in the Nov. 4 election.

Yet, political elites like Jeb Bush, who control hordes of campaign cash, sit on the wrong side of this issue.

Bush told the Times that comprehensive immigration reform “will restore and sustain economic growth for this country.” He said that if immigration reform is “framed in that way, I don’t think there’s a big debate in the Republican Party about the need to do this.”

“And my hope is with a Republican-controlled Senate, we can begin to see a conversation about how to go about doing that,” Bush reportedly said.

Gheen says the more expensive the race the more likely it is to produce candidates “serving the billionaires and their illegal immigrant amnesty agenda instead of the American public.”

And that’s exactly what he sees happening in North Carolina.

Mega-spending


The Charlotte Observer recently reported the Hagan-Tillis showdown could be the most expensive Senate race in U.S. history, possibly America’s first Senate race to eclipse the $100 million mark in total expenditures.

“The mega-wealth serves the money interest, which includes China and Saudi Arabia,” Gheen said. “The Bush dynasty, the Clintons, they’re all on the take for elite money and all on the same page, and you can see great alignment on what they want for gun control, amnesty and education, and what the state-run Chinese communist media wants.”

To what lengths has Tillis looked out for the concerns of illegal immigrants?
Tillis once told state lawmakers that license ID cards issued to Obama’s DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients should undergo a design change to remove the pink color, Gheen said.

Tillis told lawmakers his concern was that the color pink was offensive to Hispanic men because of its symbolic feminine qualities. About 109 of the DACA card recipients were found to be illegally registered to vote in North Carolina, according to the state audit, and are being removed from the rolls.

“It is highly ironic that Thom Tillis may lose his race by a narrow margin due to the very illegal immigrants he has fought to protect as speaker of the House on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce,” said Gheen. “Also, if his campaign buddies John McCain and Lindsey Graham had gotten their immigration reform amnesty bills through in 2007 or 2013, millions of illegal aliens would be legally registering to vote and destroying any conservative candidates’ chances in this state forevermore.”


Illegal Democrat voters


A Pew Center Research poll found in July 2013 that illegal immigrants will vote 8 to 1 Democrat if ever given citizenship by legislative amnesty.


Prior to citizenship, 31 percent of illegal aliens identify as Democrats and just 4 percent as Republicans. For those already given amnesty, illegals in the U.S. for less than 10 years, 26 percent identified with Democrats against 9 percent for Republicans. For those who had been in the U.S. for more than two decades, 54 percent identified as Democrats and 10 percent as Republicans.

Gheen said ALIPAC has helped Overpasses for America organize more than 650 protests against illegal immigration since July, and his group is encouraging those same protesters to bring their signs and banners to the polls Nov. 4 when they vote. After they vote, they can line the polling entrance and become an activist, he said.

“We’re deploying to polling places with signs on Election Day, otherwise known as amnesty Armageddon Day,” he said. “People concerned about these issues are going to go vote and then stand outside their polls with signs and speak with voters about Obama’s illegal amnesty plans and illegal voters, and we’re getting a very, very strong response to this.”

Another study reported by WND earlier this week put the numbers of illegal votes by non-citizens in the 2008 election at between 38,000 and 2.8 million, enough to hand the White House to Barack Obama as well as some key congressional seats.

The study was authored by Jesse T. Richman, Gulshan A. Chattha and David C. Earnest, who are affiliated with Old Dominion and George Mason Universities.

“I am absolutely certain that illegal alien voters in Las Vegas saved Harry Reid from Sharron Angle in 2010 and were responsible for thwarting the tea party advance west of the Mississippi,” Gheen said. “People need to realize when Obama addresses Latino ‘voters’ he’s not addressing legal Latino voters because a slight majority of them support strengthened border security and not amnesty.”

“We are all quite aware that illegals are voting,” he said. “It’s the American public that’s the last to know.”





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