The Los Angeles City Council voted 10-5 this month to place a measure on the November ballot that would ask voters whether “noncitizen residents” should be allowed to vote in city and local school board elections.
That sentence should stop every American in their tracks. If Democrats can sever voting from citizenship in the nation’s second-largest city, the precedent will embolden them to spread it beyond Tinseltown’s borders.
This ballot measure is remarkable not merely because of what it would do, but also because of what it reveals.
For more than a decade, progressives have dismissed conservative warnings about illegal aliens voting as nothing other than a baseless “conspiracy theory” –just an excuse to justify stricter election laws that would “disenfranchise” legal voters.
Yet here we are. California Democrats are no longer merely defending sanctuary-city policies or protesting federal enforcement of our immigration laws. They are now directly asking voters whether individuals who broke our laws to enter the country should be allowed to help choose the politicians who run local government and the school board members who shape the education of the next generation.
Supporters are, of course, dressing up the measure as a matter of fairness and representation.
Democratic Socialist L.A. City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez, who sponsored the proposal, told local media that “if you live in the city, contribute to the city, raise your family in the city, and are impacted by the decisions made in the city, you deserve to have a voice in the city.” That’s a neat slogan, but it’s also a complete misunderstanding of how citizenship allowed our American experiment in self-government to thrive for the past 250 years.
The fundamental architecture of American self-governance rests on the constitutional mandate that sovereign authority resides in the people. But “the people” are not an amorphous category defined by mere physical location. It is a distinct body of citizens bound by an exclusive allegiance to one another and to the rule of law.
Citizenship carries deep, demanding obligations to bear arms in the nation’s defense, serve on juries, pay the full freight of taxes, submit to the outcomes of democratic elections, and follow the law. In exchange for these shared burdens, the citizen is granted ultimate directional control over the government via the ballot box.
The L.A. ballot proposal tramples on this fragile arrangement by destroying the political covenant between the government and its citizens. Instead, it follows the socialist tradition of reducing communities to economic zones of administrative management and implying that borders and sovereignty are totally irrelevant.
Under this philosophy of government, why would an aspiring immigrant endure the long and honorable process of naturalization when the local political apparatus will hand over the ultimate leverage of civic power for the mere price of occupying space?
Individuals will be incentivized to remain illegal aliens to take advantage of municipal perks while avoiding the full responsibility of citizenship. This ballot proposal treats citizenship not as the load-bearing wall of self-government, but as decorative trim that city hall can remove when politically convenient.
The scale of this proposal is staggering and dangerous. Demographic data indicates that roughly 1.3 million “noncitizens” reside within Los Angeles, comprising nearly 36 percent of the city’s total population. Adding such a voting bloc will fundamentally alter the political identity of the city.
The L.A. City Council is effectively importing a new electorate to insulate themselves from the failure of their leadership.
Even current Democrat voters should be outraged at this naked power grab. Existing Angelenos already struggle to navigate the city’s rampant homelessness and illicit drug crises, deteriorating infrastructure, and persistent public safety concerns like the recent wildfires that tore through the city. Now, they are being asked to agree to the erosion of their own electoral leverage.
It’s an act of ultimate irony for these progressive leaders to ask the consent of the governed to dilute their own voter influence. If L.A. citizens agree to the ballot measure, local politicians may never have to listen to their concerns ever again.
The practical implementation of noncitizens voting in local elections also invites potential administrative mayhem for federal elections.
Councilmember Monica Rodriguez, one of the five members who voted against the measure, warned that L.A. will have to “finance our own separate type of ballot” due to federal law prohibiting noncitizen voting if federal races are also on the ballot. This would require a bifurcated ballot system.
Beyond the logistical and financial nightmare surrounding its implementation, how will election officials accurately verify the identity of individuals who are here illegally without opening the floodgates to systemic voter fraud? Once they are registered on local voter rolls, what measures will ensure illegal immigrants do not receive federal ballots due to inevitable bureaucratic commingling?
Given that L.A. Democrats have already proven that they have so little regard for the sacredness of U.S. citizenship, no one can seriously trust that they won’t allow illegal aliens to vote in state and federal elections as well. This is a significant problem that most L.A. liberals appear suspiciously unconcerned about.
This is exactly why President Trump is right about the urgent need to protect the sanctity of citizenship and voting. As California Democrats seek to separate voting from citizenship, GOP efforts to ensure that American elections are decided by American citizens have become more important than ever before.
The SAVE America Act, currently stalled in the U.S. Senate, is vital legislation designed to require documentary proof of citizenship for voter registration in federal elections, regardless of whether L.A. muddles this process with their local elections. While critics argue this bill is redundant because federal noncitizen voting is already illegal, L.A. has demonstrated exactly why Trump’s broader push for citizenship verification is essential for the preservation of free and fair elections.
It is tempting for observers outside of California to dismiss the Los Angeles vote as another isolated episode of West Coast progressive overreach. But that would be a fatal mistake. Municipal enfranchisement is part of the Democrat Party’s coordinated national strategy to normalize noncitizen voting across the United States, as my colleague David Catron expertly articulated in a recent column for AMAC Newsline.
This November, Angelenos will decide whether their city remains a self-governing community of sovereign people or degenerates into Democrats’ dream of a post-civic administrative zone where citizenship is just another devalued currency.
W.J. Lee has served in the White House, NASA, on multiple campaigns, and in nearly all levels of government.
The Socialist firmly control NYC and now they are looking forward to controlling the #2 city in our nation — LA. You start small and slowly expand. Be sure that no matter what the vote count is — this measure will surely pass, and election integrity will continue to decline through the idiot Socialist Democrats. This is all on the agenda for the One World Order for taking control of the world.
Sanctuary city or not,President Trump should send ICE and Border Patrol in and arrest and deport all the illegals.They already broke our laws just being here! That takes care of the problem!
Embolden by todays Supreme Court decision on citizenship, no doubt this will become a trend for the dems in power throughout the country. If they aren’t stopped at the ballot box this fall, we’ll be right back where we were under the biden crime family monarchy.
Only in the demonratic state of “Kalifornia” would one see this. Letting illegals Vote? What a crock of bull manure!
Fairness and representation? For people who don’t even belong here? Never!
Funny, the democrats claim that they cannot find the illegals, yet they always seem to know where they are to send them welfare checks, Medi-Cal cards, etc. So, they would also know where they are to provide voter registrations, but not to obey the laws and turn them over to ICE!
The democrats should be deported right along with the illegals! The evil things that they want for this country can be found in several nations around the world. Go there! Your so-called socialist utopia is already in existence. Take it all in, good and hard! But, don’t return here, ever.
The Democrats are willing to do anything to get an advantage over conservatives .
Is this only for the city of Los Angeles? If it passes there, look out, California!!!
Tom Homan recently said the new Supreme Court ruling helps to roundup & expedite deportations. He also mentioned how it will increse rounding up illegals 10 fold. With 1.3 million illegals in L.A. alone that’s a great place to start. Send in ICE, DHS, DBP, whoever is available for the job. Get it done.
Try doing this in any other country.
With this law, rule, regulation whatever the dems want to call it, it just diminished if not destroyed the legal born and legal naturalized citizens vote. Why not have people all over the world vote in our election. More and more governments will be sending their dreg citizens to this country to undermine her. The four in the House is a good example. Mamdani in NYC too. As well as all the Somalis in Minneapolis and elsewhere who committed fraud to finance their country and pay for their countrymen who have political posts in this country. Will the Chinese and Russians be next? Will the Muslim enclave in Texas become the seat of power? I just saw a documentary about William Penn. Everything was presented from a negative point of view. His slave ownership, dealing with the native Americans. Nothing about this man founding Philadelphia and providing for hundreds of immigrants from Europe and in a way also for the blacks. Philadelphia is 39% white and 39% black, the average age is 34. A young and integrated city. If they can’t make it there, the city of brotherly love, the country is doomed. There is really something systemic wrong in this country thanks to the communist, progressive democrats who hate this country with such a passion they would rather see it destroyed than saved. That is what this law thing is all about. Get it passed in LA and other dem cities will follow and before you know it’s the law of the land. Just like all states have to wait to publish the votes after the polls close in CA. But no one does. Polls close in the eastern states and the results are already announced while the Central mountain and pacific time zones are still voting. Why isn’t that rule enforced. Why are there in the counting rooms banners supporting the Pride movement. They have no place there. That place should be A political. But they are not. It’s psychological brainwashing and the dems get away with it. Like Biden got away with classified documents in his garage in his office at home and elsewhere. While Trump was charged with having those same papers under lock And key at his home swarming with Secret Service agents. But Biden was judged feeble and couldn’t be prosecuted. Hillary the same. They all get away with crimes and schemes to undermine the other side. The evil that has been perpetrated by these communist progressives in the Democrat party is a scandal our country will not recover from soon. And these same communist progressives move on get elected and destroy this country till we don’t recognize it anymore. Washington, Jefferson et al have fought in vain for an ideal. May god have mercy on their soul.
It’s not just the Democratic’s in California, it all of the Democratic Party and their allies! The Democratic Party is an enemy to our country, they are murders, thieves, liars and snakes in the grass! The Democratic Party and their allies are stealing the American people money and Social Security, Medicare, and then they have nerve enough to say we are running out oh funding! They must be stopped at all cost!
Issuing Drivers licenses to illegal legitimizes them and with that they vote. Democrats can’t win without FRAUD, FOREIGNERS and CHEATING. That’s why they fight to the death to protect all three, they are desperate.
Democrats, their supporters and sympathizers, have ownership and/or control of most media producer and outlet forms in this nation. The GOP should endeavor to increase its message impact by acquiring more of the same and using them to broadcast messages like this across the land. Avoid alienation by sticking to facts and producing reasonable solutions to the many problems vexing the republic.
Time for the National Guard to occupy LA and declare martial law until all the illegals are cleared out of CA. We already know they will cheat on the votes for this “ballot measure” and it will pass, and personally I think that and the idea of Sanctuary cities and states to be insurrectionist, and need to be put down by the militia. They are basically armed insurrectionists because all their law enforcement is armed. Like the commies getting elected into office, it’s time to drop the hammer on this crap now, before it gets worse. Roll out the tanks to LA.
the final nail in the country’s coffin is the birthright citizenship ruling the 14th amendment was about freed black slaves and their children it never was supposed to be about illegals or birthright citizens form china or anyplace else TOOOOOOOO MANY TRAITORS IN HIGH PLACES IN GOV. bye bye America I’m surprised we lasted as long as we did
I have an idea to balance the books. Any sanctuary city is disqualified from voting in any federal election. I think that would be a great bill. Just saying.
Once again, Commiefornia is committing fraud and nothing will be done about it, when will we have politicians that love this country and citizens???
So the conspiracy isn’t a theory at all, is it? And it never was. The conspiracy is real. It has always been real. The “theorist” label is part of the radical left’s virtue signaling to silence real Americans. Regrettably, it’s worked for too long. Wakey wakey, everyone….
No federal money goes to any location that deems citizenship unless.
Deport every illegal now.
Unless the Democrat Party leaders begin trying to get the Communist Democrats to be defeated in elections, we are going to end up with several Communist states and the remainder Republican States. That will lead to another Civil War to try to get the Communists out of our country. Conservatives, pray for our country and then vote RED in all elections in the midterm and in 2028. We must stick together to maintain our freedoms…ALL of them!! Republicans in Congress, join this fight. Stop voting for non-Conservative causes. Mr. Thune….do your job!!!
Many states have proof of long-dead voters and non-registered voters voting. I work a polling place, and so far we haven’t had any illegals voting.
As one who saw the late-night planes into Scranton, with the busses stationed on the tarmac headed for Hazleton (I bet Lou Barletta was fuming…), its simply common sense that they get a drivers license, they’re voting…
los angelenos love paying for illegal aliens, now they want to give them the RIGHT to vote!
Their ultimate goal has always been and always will be to establish a single party government such as Germany had under Hitler, such as Korea today, and China and on and on. The progressive/socialist party of today, the former Democrat Party, is primarily composed of committed socialists with some communists thrown in for good measure. One of the big things they have going fore them is the fact that many families that have always voted for the party will continue doing the party vote no matter how bad it will damage our nation. While Republicans and independents will sway back and forth from side to side on issues and presidential votes, the progressive/socialist/democrats have been taught and conditioned to walk in lock step together no matter how badly it might hurt them and their families in the long run.
It’s called stacking the deck. JMO
Keep flushing!
A simple solution to a simple problem: If you want to vote, you need to become a CITIZEN. Come here the legal pathway and follow the road to citizenship.
You give them an inch on this topic and you might as well give them the mile!!! ????
if the law passes they should have to setup entirely separate precincts for any elections that coincide with local elections and they should do it at their own cost. Changing the ballot does nothing.
I will support any lawyer, swarn police officer or probably any national guard officer to uphold the oath of office to defend our constitution from enemies foreign or domestic and arrest folks who support this idea.
This isn’t the least bit surprising. Open borders was to establish a voting block of democrats and change the total political demographic. They assume and likely so, that all who came across the border under obama and brandon will vote democrat. When they gave illegals driver’s licenses, that was the first red flag and the citizens of California should have stopped it then. They didn’t and now we have it! The new normal? Deal with it California CITIZEN VOTERS…or get off your behinds and make sure it doesn’t become law!
Who are they trying to fool? The illegals already vote in LA’s (and CA) elections!!! Why do you think the state has refused to allow the Feds to audit their voter roles?
Three reasons the democrats want illegals to vote, so they can live freely in our country, protest against our laws, hold their hands out for money, food, housing….voting privileges!!! Another reason, 2 actually….POWER & MONEY!!! All the young women, girls, old women, any female they see with their evil eye….they are part of the “automatic citizens”….however they lived in whatever country they wandered across the border from, they get to do whatever they want to do. The Police try to arrest them, stop them somehow and their fellow illegals PLUS the dumb-asses who are legal & illegal fight them tooth & nail to keep the Police from arresting them as they try and should do!! That’s how the communist want America to be….it makes it so much easier to take over a country when the legal citizens just lay down and spray WELCOME on their backs!!! Look how easy it is for Putin to take over Ukraine!! Go in Ukraine, rape & rob the women, girls, babies…..take little kids from there parents to Russia and give them away to whatever commie people want, and voila!!! Look at Cuba….the country doesn’t look like it has left the 1950’s!!! Castro’s family, “friends” & relatives living high on the hog…..the people, Cubans, are living in the homes the commiunists tell them to, do the jobs the leaders tell them to, live off the “wages” the communists tell them they are working for!! THIS is what the stupid citizens who vote for the Mamdami’s of the country will have to settle for! Capitolism gone….citizens as useful idiots….going to the Commitee for their food, bus rides, little bit of coins….ahhhh yes….the good life!! Meanwhile, South America has given up on communism and have started voting for the party of their choice…somebody who will listen to them and treat them with repect!
Okay . . . . let’s face it. It’s time for California to slide off into the Pacific.
There may be nothing worse than a rich banana Republic.
Another informative article by the AMAC writers, Thanks. Let us not ever forget the “sacredness of our citizenship”. The state of Ca., which takes weeks to count votes, do the citizens want to give them more power? And California is not the only state, with tendencies to fraud in elections. I shall never forget the 2020 presidential election, which netted us the worst president of recent memory.
The legislators and the courts, found no evidence of fraud; forgot to tell us they did not even LOOK. And allowed attorneys to be prosecuted for trying to show the evidence. Vote folks, R. Is my advice
Since ballots contain both local, state, and federal issues, proposals, and candidates, what’s to stop illegals who can only vote on “local” issues from voting on state and federal items? Is California going to create separate local only ballots for illegals while actual citizens get the full ballot? Or are we just going to “trust them” to not vote on things that aren’t allowed to. After all, what could possibly go wrong!
Seems everything CA does is a clear and present danger to the country. Illegal aliens should not be permitted a back door citizen status. Who keeps them out of national elections? We already have the problem of illegal aliens driving our roads and receiving financial benefits. This foolishness and the sanctuary city/state nonsense is a threat to the union. The sole purpose for this movement is power for the LEFT. Should they gain such power the nation is next.
Just once, I want to see a Democrat do something that honors legal citizens. They only love the illegals! Don’t believe anything they say, just watch what they do. And if you are a Democrat, get out of that crazy party! Throw the bums out!!
NO
non citizens cant VOTE
Reminds me of something my great uncle told about 1,000 years ago. He asked me how to boil a frog. Looked at him like he was from outer space. He said ‘You don’t throw a frog into a pot of boiling water. He will either die outright or jump out of the pot! Nah, you put him into a pot of lukewarm water, and he’ll like the Devil outta that. Then, you slowly, s l o w l y, turn up the heat til that frog boils. With a smile on his face!’
Kinda like the Dumba$$ocrat$ treat the GOP. They don’t just go all in at once, changin’ the rules, tryin’ to pull the wool over everboddies eyes! NAW! They go about it all slow, denyin’ it everbit of the way! Until the GOP gets sleepy and nods out. Then the Dumb$ just open all the pollin’ places and mail votin’ boxes, while taking months and months to “count” (didja hear that? I said “count” the votes. As if votes ever REALLY get counted! GUFFAW!) , stand back outta the way and wait for the “results” to come in!
Yup. THAT is how ol’ Joe Biden got 88 million votes for POTUS. Heard it on PMSNBC…
Our next 2 elections (and I am afraid they will be the last we will ever see) are gonna come about in this EXACT manner. Yup.
NYC,LA and more,chitcago,how many more corrupt cities are there,I think that many Parts of New York state,most of California and most of Illinois are normal and not leaning marxist.The politicians that are in charge of these corrupt cities/states should be held accountable.They are democrats,democrat socialists and very close to being marxists if not there already.This cannot go on,they flaunt the CONSTITUTION,and they need to be stopped.Voting them out is the best way.If that doesn’t work,what next.I really fear for the real AMERICA,will it ever return.
this la voting must be stopped
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