Amid Donald Trump's successful campaign to curb immigration, several states have passed measures barring noncitizens from voting.
Measures to prevent non-citizens from voting have been placed on ballots in eight states, and the paper said the measures would place restrictions on deep blue municipalities that currently allow non-citizens to vote in local elections. washington post.
The newspaper reports that the measure has already been accepted by voters or once all votes are counted in North Carolina and South Carolina, Wisconsin, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and Oklahoma. He added that it is about to be passed.
Voting issues are not the only successful immigration measures. In Arizona, Proposition 314 passed. Entering the state as an illegal alien would be a state crime, not just a federal crime.
Arizona's measure would allow local and state law enforcement to arrest illegal aliens based on their immigration status.
However, Prop. 314 is unlikely to take effect immediately, as the new law faces a lawsuit from advocates for illegal immigrants.
Activists are also likely to file lawsuits to similarly block the election measures passed in the eight states listed above.
Lawmakers spurred the move in light of the story in Michigan, where a Chinese-American student at the University of Michigan was hospitalized. arrested for illegally voting in a state election.
Still, even if illegal aliens don't vote, their presence alone already tilts the electoral system by the fact that the U.S. Census Bureau's count increases a state's representation in Congress.
“Through redistribution and redistricting mechanisms, immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, are redistributing political power in Washington,” said Stephen Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies. said. “This redistribution is directly proportional to the size of legal and illegal immigration and exists regardless of whether or how the immigrants themselves vote.”
Far-left California, for example, has eight more seats than it should, thanks to these population-based calculations.
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