Why the left cannot let go of its nutty love of noncitizen voting
Blam!
The Courtroom of Appeals, New York’s highest courtroom, simply slammed the door on noncitizen voting — and progressives’ years-long drive to blur the variations between citizen and non-citizen, certainly between citizen and unlawful immigrant.
Throughout the nation, the left has pushed such unlawful voting with the insane declare that not letting noncitizens vote is someway anti-democratic.
It’s of a bit with the progressive view that it’s someway evil to manage our personal borders, and the left’s common contempt for something approaching patriotism — and naturally they determine it’d assist them win elections.
Thus, Democrats in Virginia and Ohio objected final yr when the states purged tons of of noncitizens from voter rolls, treating it as some form of right-wing voter suppression.
Fortunately, although progs have pushed New York’s Courtroom of Appeals properly to the left, the jurists can nonetheless learn: “Regardless of the future might deliver, the New York Structure because it stands at the moment attracts a agency line proscribing voting to residents,” defined Chief Decide Rowan Wilson in his majority opinion.
The courtroom’s 6-1 choice struck down the Metropolis Council’s 2021 regulation to permit 800,000 noncitizens with inexperienced playing cards to vote in metropolis elections — a measure that gained the votes of present mayoral hopefuls Adrienne Adams and Brad Lander, in addition to each Democratic comptroller candidates, Mark Levine and Justin Brannan.
Wilson, although impeccably left-of-center, mocked the council’s studying of the state Structure, saying it “would enable municipalities to enact laws letting anybody vote, together with 13-year-old kids.”
Thursday’s decisive ruling also needs to shut down efforts to make use of final yr’s voter-approved Prop 1 to open up statewide noncitizen voting, although some far-left group will little doubt nonetheless strive.
Reality is, the far left won’t ever quit on this nonsense except and till it involves assume that noncitizen voting will give Republicans an edge.
Citizenship ought to include some privileges, and we must always encourage authorized immigrants to grow to be residents of this nice nation.
That’s why voting is so coveted, so necessary, and never one thing to be handled so dismissively.
