Those who did not go back to work because the welfare was more and who will find their jobs have disappeared or been taken by the new cohort of illegals once the welfare stops.
The astonishing fact is, allowing foreigners to vote in NYC’s elections is tantamount to denying NYC’s citizens’ their right to vote as indicated by our very own Supreme Court:
“[T]he right of suffrage can be denied by a debasement or dilution of the weight of a citizen’s vote just as effectively as by wholly prohibiting the free exercise of the franchise.”Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U. S. 533, 555 (1964).”
Why is there such a desire by some in NYC to suddenly ignore our country’s naturalization process under which “immigrants” had to earn the right to vote in our elections by passing its Civics and English test, among other things?
Additionally, the un-American notion of allowing foreigners to vote in local elections which effects local public policy can have a devastating effect beyond that local jurisdiction and affect the lives of American citizens in surrounding communities and States. Simply consider the consequences, including deaths, suffered by American citizens in surrounding jurisdictions related to local public polices in sanctuary cities where illegal entrants are allowed to roam free.
Allowing 800,000 foreign nationals to vote in NYC’s election is more than enough of a vote to determine the outcome of NYC’s next election and would, in fact, infringe upon the suffrage right of NYC citizens by diluting and canceling out their vote.
Keep in mind in NYC’s last election, Eric Adams won the Mayoral election with a total of 754,000 votes, which is less than the 800,000 foreigners being allowed to now vote in NYC.
The sickening truth about allowing foreigners to vote in local elections is, when acts of corruption infect an electoral process in one jurisdiction “they transcend mere local concern and extend a contaminating influence into the national domain.” Justice DOUGLAS in United States v. Classic (1941)”.
On a closing note, let us not forget the wisdom of Justice Story:
“If aliens might be admitted indiscriminately to enjoy all the rights of citizens at the will of a single state, the Union might itself be endangered by an influx of foreigners, hostile to its institutions, ignorant of its powers, and incapable of a due estimate of its privileges.” – Joseph Story
JWK
The Democrat Party Leadership, once an advocate for hard working American citizens and their families, is now their most formidable domestic enemy.
Veering off topic, I believe neither too far to the left or right is good.
However, the same idea you cite as repulsive I feel the same way.
Here’s a favorite of mine. I see it every so often on social media by some holier than thou:
“Cut welfare, not social security. We worked for our money.”
■■■■ that holier than thou ■■■■■
There are individuals and families working jobs that don’t pay much, or their hours got reduced, or they got the bad end of a divorce and are only asking for some temporary help.
Then they accuse those rejecting the conservative movement of having a welfare state or plantation mentality.
“If aliens might be admitted indiscriminately to enjoy all the rights of citizens at the will of a single state, the Union might itself be endangered by an influx of foreigners, hostile to its institutions, ignorant of its powers, and incapable of a due estimate of its privileges.” – Joseph Story
Fortunately, our system is governed by the rule of law as adopted by “We the People” (our constitutions, state and federal), and they allow for change to accommodate changing times, but only in a prescribed manner, e.g., see Article V of our federal constitution which involves consent of the governed.
Are either of you embracing ignoring the rule of law to allow foreigners to vote in our elections, federal, state or local?
JWK
"The Constitution is the act of the people, speaking in their original character, and defining the permanent conditions of the social alliance; and there can be no doubt on the point with us, that every act of the legislative power contrary to the true intent and meaning of the Constitution, is absolutely null and void. ___ Chancellor James Kent, in his Commentaries on American Law , 1858.
Why do so many object to noncitizens earning the right to vote by passing our nation’s naturalization process which includes passing its Civics Test and taking our Naturalization Oath of Allegiance?
JWK
Today’s Fifth Column media ___ MSNBC, NEW YORK TIMES, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, WASHINGTON POST, ATLANTIC MAGAZINE, New York Daily News, Time, in addition to Facebook, Twitter ETC., and countless Yellow Journalists who are socialist revolutionaries ___ make Russia’s old Pravda, [an organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union] look like propaganda amateurs.
You find it “funny” that foreigners no longer have to earn the right to vote in our elections?
JWK
They are not “liberals” or “progressives”. They are Socialist Revolutionaries, the very kind who took over Cuba and now rule over the people with an iron fist.
So is it “funny” that more than 800,000 foreigners who have not earned the right to vote in our elections, may now vote in NYC’s elections?
JWK
Today’s Democrat Party Leadership is infested with Socialist Revolutionaries, the same kind that took over Cuba and now rule over the people with an iron fist!