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Do you agree with Liberal New Haven Mayor that illegal aliens must have the right to vote in his city?
Does this prove that liberals just want illegals because they are their potential voters?
New Haven, Connecticut mayor John DeStefano proposed this week to extend voting rights to non-citizens in his city, including immigrants who entered the country illegally.
The New Haven Independent reports the Democratic mayor will go to the state legislature for permission to enact the changes to local voting requirements.
“All I’m just saying is that like women and African-Americans before them, this is a class of individuals that are precluded from having a say in the community in which they’re a part of," DeStefano told the Independent.
“I’m just saying if you live here, you work here—I think it’s reasonable that you have a say about what goes on,” DeStefano added.
But the mayor faces challenges in getting approval for his plan. Andrew Roraback, a Republican who chairs the legislature's judiciary committee, vows a fight.
“No right is more cherished and more valued than the right to vote, and for us even contemplating extending that right to people who have come to this country unlawfully, is un-American, unpatriotic and unacceptable,” Roraback told WCBS Radio.
Jerry Labriola, who chairs Connecticut's Republican Party, said DeStefano's plan was a "publicity stunt." Labriola told Fox News that while he's all for inclusiveness, citizenship has always been the standard for the right to vote.
"We support legal immigration and reasonable measures to provide a path to citizenship, but we don't support providing rewards for illegal immigration," Labriola told the network.
"It's not an idea that I'm particularly comfortable with," Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, told NECN.com. "I think there are obligations that run with citizenship and there are privileges that run with citizenship." However, the governor told Fox he'd be willing to hear the mayor out on this issue.
7 Answers
- DiLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
That "illegals" are "working" in his community speaks to a larger problem - that employers are not being brought to book on hiring illegals in the first place. For him to lump illegals into the same classification as the struggles felt by women and African Americans is frankly, disgraceful.
They are illegals and, broke our laws. Why he should be supporting that is the greater problem.
- ?Lv 44 years ago
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- Don MLv 79 years ago
Don't you suspect His Honor would feel differently if the vast majority of illegal aliens were inclined to vote Republican?
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- 9 years ago
I thought small government was the answer. Local government is that and therefore should be left to its community. Correct? Or do we need the nanny state to intercede?
