Really, D.C. never should have had the authority to allow non-citizens to vote in the first place, being the seat of the federal government
House passes Republican-led bills to repeal D.C. laws on noncitizen voting and policing
The Republican-controlled House is poised to pass a trio of bills this week to repeal Washington, D.C., laws on immigration, voting and policing, even as it has yet to restore a painful $1 billion cut to the city’s budget.
The House passed two of the bills Tuesday. One would bar noncitizens from voting in local elections in the nation’s capital, overturning a Washington law that was passed in 2022. It passed 266-148, with 56 Democrats joining Republicans in support.
The other bill would restore collective bargaining rights and a statute of limitations for Washington police officers involved in disciplinary cases. It passed 235-178, with 30 Democrats voting for it and four Republicans voting against it.
Will there be enough Democrats in the Senate to push these through? Will the be down for cutting off the noncitizens voting and treating the police well? The force is already down about 16%, thanks to the anti-police sentiment of Democrats
Then, on Thursday, the House is expected to pass a third bill, the District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act, which would require the Washington government to comply with requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security to share information and detain undocumented immigrants. Under current Washington law, local authorities do not work with federal immigration officials unless they have judicial warrants.
Altogether, the bills represent House Republicans’ attempt to assert authority over deep-blue Washington at a time when the GOP has unified control of the federal government.
Congress is supposed to have control over D.C. government, and the city should not be protecting illegal aliens, being the seat of the federal government, for goodness sakes.
“D.C.’s City Council made radical decisions in our nation’s capital under the Biden-Harris administration, passing local laws that are woefully inconsistent with national standards or constitutional principles,” Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, the chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee who authored the GOP voting bill, told NBC News in a statement.
Of course, a problem here is that Los Federales try and put their hands in way too many cookie jars, instead of dealing with the core mission as defined by the Constitution, particularly Article 1 sections 8 through 10.
Until 1926 non citizens could vote in 40 of the 48 states
Johnny-hairy-smith:
Why should non-citizens be able to vote?
[…] Imagine non-citizens NOT voting……. Yes, I can dig that […]
Now we get rid of this “dual citizenship” racket and we’ll start getting things straightened out. Face it… You are either an American citizen or you are not. And if you’re not, get your greedy little fingers out of our government.
There is little question that America needs to tighten its citizenship rules. The MAGAt caucus is working to ban dual citizenship, especially to disallow dual citizens from voting. Elon Musk, Tom Hanks, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ryan Reynolds, Peter Thiel, Andrew Tate, John Oliver etc
Dual citizenship is not really a problem, because few of us are. Part of the issue is how dual citizenship is obtained. If it is incidental, such as being Jewish, and automatically eligible for Israeli citizenship, it’s no big deal. But if an American swears loyalty and fealty to a foreign government, he should lose his American citizenship.
It should be automatic: if someone enters the United States illegally, he should be permanently barred from ever obtaining American citizenship.