Comment by Jim Campbell
March 8th, 2019
House Democrats voted Friday to defend localities that allow illegal immigrants to vote in their elections, turning back a GOP attempt to discourage the practice.
The vote marks a stunning reversal from just six months ago, when the chamber — then under GOP control — voted to decry illegal immigrant voting.
Somewhere in the jungles of Africa the animals are howling, “Where is our congressman?”
“Mr. Bullet Head,” is having another spell of delusions of grandeur with his latest musing to which the rest of the Congressional Black Congress and socialist/Marxists agree.
Voters packed the Vigo County Annex in Terre Haute, Ind., on Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, during the final day of early voting. (Austen Leake/Tribune-Star via AP)
Alleged Republican Susan Collins of Maine went along with this legislation which is akin to jumping on to the Titanic, or the proverbial train to nowhere.
Republicans have virtually no idea how she will vote on any legislation.
It’s time for the voters in Maine to wake up and vote this old broad out of office.
Here is her woeful voting record from on the issues. (Source)
Why doesn’t she cut to the chase and become a Democrat which at heart she is.
March 8, 2019
“We are prepared to open up the political process and let all of the people come in,” Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and hero of the civil rights movement, told colleagues as he led opposition to the GOP measure.
The 228-197 vote came as part of a broader debate on Democrats’ major legislative priority this year, HR 1, the “For the People Act,” which includes historic expansions of voter registration and access, as well as a major rewrite of campaign finance laws.
The measure would have had no practical effect even if it had passed. Illegal immigrants — and indeed non-citizens as a whole — are not legally able to participate in federal elections.
But Republicans had hoped to send a message to localities such as San Francisco, where non-citizens are now allowed to vote in school board elections.
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“It sounds like I’m making it up.
What kind of government would cancel the vote of its own citizens, and replace it with non-citizens?” said Rep. Dan Crenshaw, Texas Republican.
He pointed to last year’s vote, when 49 Democrats joined the GOP to decry non-citizen voting.
On Friday just six Democrats voted in favor.
A 1996 federal law prohibits non-citizens from voting in federal elections, but there is no prohibition on localities, and indeed a number of jurisdictions allow it, to some extent.
Famously liberal Takoma Park, a small jurisdiction in Maryland, has for several decades allowed non-citizens, including illegal immigrants, to vote in local elections.
Experts say as many as 40 states or territories allowed non-citizen voting dating back to the nation’s founding.
San Francisco in July began allowing non-citizens to vote in school board elections — though they must be parents or legal guardians of students.
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