She’s 7 beers shorts of a 6 pack
AOC says GOP reviving ‘legacy of slavery’ by ending non-citizen voting rights in DC
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., implied Wednesday that racism lies behind this week’s push by Republicans to end voting rights for non-citizens in the capital of Washington, D.C.
House lawmakers debated a resolution that would disapprove of a D.C. Council law allowing non-citizens and illegal immigrants to vote in the city. Several Democrats took to the floor to argue that Republicans were looking to micromanage the city, and Ocasio-Cortez went further by saying the GOP seems to be targeting minorities.
She said Republicans “claim they believe in the sacred right to vote while denying that right to vote to an overwhelmingly Black city,” and accused Republicans of trying to “meddle into the business of D.C. residents.”
Ocasio-Cortez added that while other cities around the country have allowed non-citizens to vote, Republicans are only calling up legislation dealing with Washington, D.C.
“They’re singling out the residents of the District of Columbia and expanding in the history of disenfranchisement that goes all the way back to the legacy of slavery,” she argued.
There’s no legal right for non-citizens, especially illegal aliens, to vote in the U.S., and, as the District of Columbia is ultimately responsive to Congress. It was never meant to be a town with residents and private businesses and such, and, even the D.C. government’s webpage, in whining for statehood, states that “The Constitution dictates that the federal district be under the jurisdiction of the US Congress.” At the end of the day, the D.C. government is under the control of Congress, and every time they let a non-citizen vote they’re reducing the power of legal U.S. citizen votes.
AOC’s idiotic, race baiting argument further reduces the history of actual disenfranchisement of those who had previously been slaves. But, hey, she doesn’t seem to know much about the subject she earned an economics degree in, so, why would she know anything about history?
If they want to vote, there is a simple process called naturalization. No changes in the law are required for a legal immigrant to go through naturalization.
Teach you do realize that states used to allow non citizens to vote. There was a right, but states took it away because they did not want Catholic Irish or Italian immigrants to vote. The last state to deny immigrants to vote was Arkansas in 1926
Federal Law passed in 1997
Made it illegal for non citizens to vote in Federal elections. Through most of its history USA allowed all to vote( well except I guess blacks because of rasaaacism)
Dear H:
Yes, there was a time we we had a large country with lots of space with factories and farms that needed lots of unskilled labor.
The immigrants came through legal means and were slowly absorbed into the fabric of the country. This was helped because there were no ways for the individual to easily remain connected to the “old country.”
Now we have foreign language radio stations and other media in every city and in the Internet provides cheap and easy access world wide.
The new, mostly illegal, immigrants are not absorbed but demand that we adapt to them in culture and politics.
It is no longer, “Out of many, one.”
The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States:
Note that the Amendment specifies the right of citizens to vote.
The Nineteenth Amendment does the same:
The Twenty-fourth Amendment:
And the Twenty-sixth Amendment:
In every case, the amendments contemplated the right to vote applying to citizens of the United States. Nothing in the Constitution bars states from allowing non-citizens to vote, but it’s clear that our legislators in both Congress and the state legislators who ratified these amendments were thinking in terms of citizens, not just persons.
So what? If you really, really want to go back to the laws and such of those days we’ll gladly accommodate ya.
You should concern yourself more with the unity of America going forward than trying to import illegals to vote in our elections.
This is not 1926 H and you should be very thankful.
Once again, the left shows how much they like real slavery
“Teach you do realize that states used to allow non-citizens to vote”. You do realize they also used to allow slavery, right? So what?