In summary, I feel that there are far more than 20 million illegal immigrants in this country.
Posted on 03/08/2019 8:46:49 AM PST by Red Badger
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.
“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 noncitizens as a whole — are not legally able to participate in federal elections.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
This is the kind of nonsense you get when you elect democrats!
If shouldn’t happen even locally!~
Well, at least now the Dems put their agenda in the open.
There is no old fashioned way, we are in new territory. Our government has actually deteriorated into an oligarchy. Google Page and Gilens from Princeton, study done in 2014.
The only solution is to repeal 16th and 17th Amendments and revoke the House Rule limiting the House to 435 seats.
16th Amendment turned us all into serfs, and the govt. uses our money against us to subjugate us. The 17th Amendment emasculated the states. And the House Rule diluted the votes of all citizens as the population grew.
All combined, it is a recipe for tyranny and it’s working.
FEES are for non-citizens.
See how simple that was to fix!
If they were; how would we find out about it?
Heard about this on NPR radio earlier today. They said The Turtle has already said he’ll prevent this from coming to a vote in the Senate.
Since this has no chance of passing into law with the current senate or president, seems like this stick in the eye of real citizen voters may cost the Dems more than a few votes in 2020. The Dems have been out “stupid-ing” the GOP lately.
Not if the let illegals vote in that. It’s just for Electors, after all, which is a local office./Wait for it. This will be their argument. Good thing there’s enough sane people in the Senate to stop this.
That was my initial assessment, but...what if we didn’t hold the Senate (which means at any time, we could be two years away from the end of the Republic as we know it.
And to be honest, I am no longer comforted by the “Republicans control the Senate” emollient. There are very few I trust, and almost all of them could vote for something at any time, and have shockingly done so. That coupled with their disinclination or reluctance to vigorously investigate and prosecute the Trump collusion hoax and associated surveillance abuses, the Clinton Email Scandal and any number of things that should be.
I continue to be shocked and discouraged by the kinds of things that would be a political death sentence to someone running for or holding an office a relatively short time ago are open and embraced now.
I don’t feel at all confident in the Senate to do anything right. I give them credit for getting judicial nominees moved through, but that is it.
In summary, I feel that there are far more than 20 million illegal immigrants in this country.
And who is housing / clothing / feeding / employing these invaders?
Yeah. We know that. I read a “conservative estimate” total cost to our country of $50 billion a year, but I will bet after seeing those numbers released by the Customs/Border Patrol, it is closer to $200-$250 billion a year now.
It is sick.
The End of the Republic...
We sold our house in Seattle 5 years after we moved to Oregon, it was a rental and subject to 40% tax, that was our "nest egg". The $250K profit was invested by way of a 1042 exchange into three properties in Oregon. A 10 unit apartment, a nine unit "slumlord" type place and 80 acres of raw land. All three now subject to state jurisdiction by way of state rent control just passed and signed and next up huge restrictions placed on timber land for "drinking watersheds" they can and want to lock up our acreage for harvest due to some random label by the ruling class.
Not to mention the fights we are having with gun restrictions. Bloomberg bought our Governor and most of the state Senate, it is getting very ugly out west.
Here’s the fix for the problem - Terminate with extreme prejudice.
I never, on any post here or anywhere else on FR, ever argued that CWII would be a “civilized” fight (Whatever the fk that is). In fact, the exact opposite has always been my position - that a second civil war would make the first look like a boy scout jamboree: There would be mo mercy, no quarter, and no prisoners taken. The atrocities committed would be worse than your wildest nightmares, or anything done heretofore ... Because that is the intensity of the hatred, as it now exists.
If you think leftists will be defeated by intellect alone, you are living in fantasy - and nor have you any concept of world history. It ALWAYS, 100 percent of the time, in every case, comes down to bloodshed. And the longer it is put off, the worse will be the bloodshed and destruction.
I estimate we will lose, at minimum, 70 percent of the U.S. population - not only to the immediate consequences of combat, but mostly to the effects of starvation and disease - since most urban Americans (where the majority of the U.S. Population resides) possess not even rudimentary survival skills.
Not happening. Unlikely to be approved by Senate, and almost certain to get a Trump veto.
I have heard some talk of allowing voting in municipal elections, not even state elections. And with possible residency requirements.
The right of citizens registered in Washington, DC has been abridged for many years because even though they pay full federal taxes, they have no Representative or Senators, even though the DC population is more than Vermont and Wyoming. Puerto Rican citizens are not affected as they do NOT pay federal taxes.
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