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发帖数: 1823 | 1 蓝皮和绿卡的唯一区别就是选举权，非公民都可以选举了，要蓝皮何用
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/york-city-poised-give-voting-rights-noncitizens-81598723
New York City poised to give voting rights to noncitizens
In New York City, long a beacon for immigrants, noncitizens are about to win
an important civic duty: The right to vote
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press
December 7, 2021, 12:45 AM
• 5 min read
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On Location: December 7, 2021
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The Associated Press
NEW YORK -- New York City, long a beacon for immigrants, is on the cusp of
becoming the largest places in the country to give noncitizens the right to
vote in local elections.
Legally documented, voting-age noncitizens comprise nearly one in nine of
the city's 7 million voting-age inhabitants. Under a bill nearing approval,
some 800,000 noncitizens would be allowed to cast ballots in elections to
pick the mayor, City Council members and other municipal officeholders
Noncitizens still wouldn't be able to vote for president or members of
Congress in federal races, or in the state elections that pick the governor,
judges and legislators.
Little stands in the way of the effort becoming law. The measure has broad
support within the City Council, which is expected to ratify the proposal
Thursday. Mayor Bill de Blasio has raised concerns about the wisdom and
legality of the legislation, but said he won't veto it.
The law would give an electoral voice to the many New Yorkers who love the
city and have made it their permanent home, but can’t easily become U.S.
citizens or would rather remain citizens of their home nations for various
reasons.
It would also cover “Dreamers" like Eva Santos, 32, who was brought to the
U.S. by her parents at age 11 as an unauthorized immigrant, but wasn't able
to vote like her friends or go to college when she turned 18.
“It was really hard for me to see how my other friends were able to make
decisions for their future, and I couldn’t,” said Santos, now a community
organizer.
More than a dozen communities across the United States currently allow
noncitizens to vote, including 11 towns in Maryland and two in Vermont.
San Francisco, through a ballot initiative ratified by voters in 2016, began
allowing noncitizens to vote in school board elections — which was also
true in New York City until it abolished its boards in 2002 and gave control
of schools to the mayor.
The move in Democrat-controlled New York City is a counterpoint to
restrictions being enacted in some states, where Republicans have espoused
unsupported claims of rampant fraud by noncitizens in federal elections.
Last year, voters in Alabama, Colorado and Florida ratified measures
specifying that only U.S. citizens can vote, joining Arizona and North
Dakota in adopting rules that would preempt any attempts to pass laws like
the one being considered in New York City.
“I think that there’s people in our society that go to sleep with so much
fear of immigrants that they try to make an argument to disqualify their
right to elect their local leaders,” said New York City Councilman Ydanis
Rodriguez, who is originally from the Dominican Republic and was unable to
vote until he became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
“This is about whether we are living in New York City, we are contributing
to New York City and paying taxes in New York City,” said Rodriguez, a
Democrat.
De Blasio, though, has questioned whether the measure would survive a legal
challenge. Federal law allows states and local governments to decide who can
vote in their elections, but some, including the mayor, have raised
concerns about whether state lawmakers must first act to grant the city the
authority to extend voting rights to noncitizens.
“Look, there’s obviously an argument: We want people involved, we want to
hear people’s voices,” de Blasio recently said on the television news
program “Inside City Hall.”
“I still have a concern about it. Citizenship has an extraordinary value.
People work so hard for it,” he said. “We need people in every good way to
want to be citizens.”
The minority leader of the City Council, Joseph Borelli, a Republican from
Staten Island, said the measure will undoubtedly end up in court.
“It devalues citizenship, and citizenship is the standard by which the
state constitution issues or allows for suffrage in New York state elections
at all levels,” Borelli said.
The proposal would allow noncitizens who have been lawful permanent
residents of the city for at least 30 days, as well as those authorized to
work in the U.S., including so-called “Dreamers,” to help select the city
’s mayor, city council members, borough presidents, comptroller and public
advocate.
The law would direct the Board of Elections to draw up an implementation
plan by July, including voter registration rules and provisions that would
create separate ballots for municipal races to prevent noncitizens from
casting ballots in federal and state contests. Noncitizens wouldn't be
allowed to vote until elections in 2023.
Giving nonresidents the right to vote could empower them to become a
political force that can’t be easily ignored, said Anu Joshi, the vice
president of policy of the New York Immigration Coalition.
New York City, with more than 3 million foreign-born residents, would be a
fitting place to anchor a national movement to expand immigrant voting
rights, said Ron Hayduk, now a professor of political science at San
Francisco State University but who spent years in New York steeped in the
movement for noncitizen voting rights.
“New York, the home of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, prides
itself on being the place of immigration,” he noted. “So there’s this
question of what’s the place of immigrants in our city — are they really
New Yorkers, are they full New Yorkers in the sense of qualifying and
deserving the power of the vote and to shape its political future?”
The answer should be a “resounding yes,” he said. | q******s
发帖数: 7469 | 2 这有什么稀奇的。伦敦一直是这样的啊，不用公民，是合法居住的选市长。香港也是的
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