Pat DollardExcerpted from Fox News:
WASHINGTON – A controversial proposal in New York City to give voting rights to hundreds of thousands of non-citizen immigrants could make them into a key vote in America’s largest city.
The Big Apple proposal, though, could resonate with other municipalities, inspiring them to follow suit — and, if Congress approves an otherwise unrelated immigration overhaul, the number of newly eligible immigrant voters could swell into a potent voting bloc on the local level.
That’s because the national overhaul being considered in Washington creates a so-called pathway to legal status for millions of illegal immigrants. By itself, this does little in the near-term to give non-citizens the right to vote. But if New York City approves its plan to give its 800,000 legal immigrants a say in city politics, illegal immigrants could eventually join the voter rolls there as well. And they wouldn’t have to wait for citizenship to vote.
[…]http://patdollard.com/2013/06/new-york-to-allow-non-citizens-to-vote-in-municipal-elections/
Does NYC have a choice? If they don’t allow non-citizens to vote they’d never have enough voters to make an election worth the effort.
I was once arrested in up-state NY, and during the paperwork process the cop asked me “what’s your nationality?”
I said “I’m an American.”
Then he asked “where were you born?”
I said “Brooklyn.”
He replied by saying “that’s not America.”
I hate to admit it, but he was at least half-right.
He must still be bitter about the Dodgers leaving.
They can have them back.