Noncitizen Voting Push Is Part of Agenda to Rid America of Citizenship: Election Expert

The recent New York City law to allow at least 800,000 noncitizens to vote in municipal elections is unconstitutional and likely to be overturned in court, said Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Heritage Foundation's election law reform initiative and former member of the Federal Election Commission.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams allowed the measure to become law on Jan. 9, which includes the provision that voting noncitizens must be in the city for 30 days or more and have authorization to work.

"Does anybody really believe that the election department is going to investigate the lawful status of any alien who registers to vote?" he said.

Although he doesn't think any states will try to change their election laws to include voting rights for noncitizens, Spakovsky said there's a push from the progressive left to change the concept or definition of "Citizen."

"The whole point of the open borders crowd is to do two things: one, extinguish the line between legal and illegal aliens in this country. And second, to frankly, get rid of the whole concept of citizenship," he said.

New York City Councilwoman Margaret Chin, a Democrat, told colleagues before the recent vote that many noncitizens struggle to become citizens but should still be able to vote in the meanwhile because they pay taxes and live and work in the city.

Spakovsky said the inability for the Trump administration to get a question placed on the 2020 Census about citizenship status was a major win for the progressive left to blur the lines between citizen and noncitizen.

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