illegal immigrants to vote in DC local election?

The funny part of this post: Ellis Island-era immigration allowed just about everybody into the country with basically no legal restrictions other than having a small amount of money and a lack of communicable diseases. How about we go back to those laws?

 

And BTW, just to be clear: Not being a citizen does not mean they're illegal.

 

Haha, wow, you are correct. Here is Buckeye's first attempt at this post. I guess it was so important, that he forgot he already started this post 3 weeks ago.

who needs to be a citizen to vote, just cross the border and come to washington d.c

 

Makes you wonder why all those red state govs are bussing migrants to DC

 

I'd give you a reason that I feel is valid and you'd discount it as being invalid. So what's the point?

 

You are asking the wrong person, I cant think of a good reason why anyone would want to become an American citizen (unless they are rich or fleeing one of our wars)

 

My great-grandmother had pink-eye when she landed on Ellis Island. Almost sent back, but she was pregnant with my grandmother, and gave birth on the island. She became a citizen, and the family was allowed to stay. And while my grandmother was a citizen, my great-grandparents never became ones, and had to apply for green cards every year. Always believed they would return to Hungary. But as Jews, each passing day leading up to WWII, that became less and less likely.

As for Boston, last time I was there, Sam Adams had a limited release Amber. Only in select restaurants and the brewery, in which we took a tour. Fantastic tour and the limited release was amazing.

And again, taxation without representation is a staple in American politics. If immigrants can show they are living within an area for 30 days at the same address, and the municipal area wants them to vote, why not? Again, living there means they are paying taxes including property taxes either as an owner, or through rent, sales tax, gas tax, and other local taxes.

 

Ok, I'll start studying for the citizenship test by memorizing the starting line of the 1970 Montreal Canadiens and the menu of Tim Hortons

 

so what exactly are you worried about here? On your first thread on this subject, you claimed that liberals would ship in a bunch of noncitizens to vote liberal. But several posters pointed out that DC city politics were already very liberal. So that kind of failed.
What exactly is your claimed concern this time?

 

Each person has his/her own reason to become a citizen or not. Some, like my great-grandparents may harbor dreams of one day returning home, even if that becomes impossible. Others may know their time here is limited. Still, they end up paying the same local taxes, regardless of citizenship or immigration status.

So if a local area thinks it's a good idea to have these immigrants vote, why do you have such a major issue with it? Again, restrict their voting and these immigrants end up paying taxes without any sort of representation. And some would say that's un-American.

 

So wrong, turns out its Desantis and Abbott shipping in noncitizens to DC!

 

All the farms that need to be worked in DC?

 

Depends on the home country. Naturized citizen would have an US passport, unless he/she had dual citizenship. It may not be as easy to go home as a citizen of another country then as a citizen of said country. Again, depends on the country of origin.