Boston considering granting voting privileges to non citizens

[Anti Federalist]

Boston weighs giving legal, non-US citizens voting rights

https://www.boston.com/news/local-ne...-voting-rights

BOSTON (AP) — Non-U.S. citizens living in the country legally may one day be allowed to vote in Boston elections.

The City Council is holding a hearing Tuesday on the idea at the request of Council President Andrea Campbell. The council is considering ways to make city elections more inclusive, including allowing immigrants with legal status in the country the right to vote in municipal races.

That could include legal permanent residents, visa holders and those on Temporary Protected Status or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

Campbell’s order for a hearing says Boston has more than 190,000 foreign-born residents, which represents 28 percent of the city population. It also says non-U.S. citizens paid $116 million in state and local taxes and generated over $3.4 billion in spending according to a 2015 city report.

[juleswin]

I know it looks like a slippery slope but personally I think tax paying, non welfare recieving legal residents should have a say in the making decisions at the local levels.

[timosman]

I know it looks like a slippery slope but personally I think tax paying, non welfare recieving legal residents should have a say in the making decisions at the local levels.

All you have to do is show up?

[fedupinmo]

I know it looks like a slippery slope but personally I think tax paying, non welfare recieving legal residents should have a say in the making decisions at the local levels.

The problem with that is it will be impossible to keep it confined to just that.

[juleswin]

The problem with that is it will be impossible to keep it confined to just that.

Tax payers or local municipalities? or both?

[Anti Federalist]

I know it looks like a slippery slope but personally I think tax paying, non welfare recieving legal residents should have a say in the making decisions at the local levels.

Most Amerikunts are dim-witted statists of one stripe or another, regardless of ethnicity, age, class, wealth or sex, some more (or much more) than others of course, but that's a pretty universal statistic.

I am therefore opposed to anything that allows these same dimwits power to control my life through the voting process.

Edit to clarify: Any measure that gives these dimwits even more power over my life through the voting process.

[A Son of Liberty]

I'm sure some will devour the red meat peddled by Bill the Butcher here, but I'm more posting for Boss Tweed's comment... "VOTES".

Inclusive my ass. It's about securing majorities, and it always has been.

Anyway... stick your vote up your rear-end, the lot of ya. And that's coming from the descendant of IRISH and ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS.

[fedupinmo]

Tax payers or local municipalities? or both?

Non-citizens confining their vote to local elections.

[jkr]

So it's treason then...

[TheTexan]

Voting is a natural born right that belongs to every American

And immigrants aint Americans

[oyarde]

I imagine Boston , like Philadelphia , Chicago and Cleveland has been granting unlimited voting to democrats for decades .

[Brian4Liberty]

Dogs and cats should be able to vote too. Govt effects their lives, and they deserve a say.

[TheTexan]

Dogs and cats should be able to vote too. Govt effects their lives, and they deserve a say.

Yes, but only American pure-breeds

[nikcers]

There is a cultural problem because we have been taught that non citizens shouldn't vote...

“There is a cultural problem because we have been taught that rabbits are cute pets,” Urban Agriculture Minister Freddy Bernal said during a televised broadcast with Maduro this week. “A rabbit is not a pet; it’s two and a half kilos (5.5 pounds) of meat that is high in protein, with no cholesterol.”