A San Francisco Superior Court Judge, Judge Richard Ulmer, tosses a San Francisco law allowing non-citizens to vote.
“A San Francisco law allowing non-citizen parents to vote in local elections was struck down Friday by a judge who said it violates both the state constitution and state statutes.
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Ulmer ruled a 2016 ordinance that gave voting rights to non-citizen parents ‘cannot stand’. The ordinance allowed green card holders, work visa holders and undocumented immigrants to vote in school district elections.
Ulmer also issued a permanent injunction that bars the city from allowing non-citizens to vote in the future.
A month ago, a judge struck down a New York City law that allowed non-citizens to vote in local elections because it violated the state constitution”. -Karen Velie, Cal Coast News
Frankly, it’s not illegal immigrants who are the problem. Legal immigrants, and the fact that there have been far too many of them from too different cultures, are at the root of the problem.
“Proponents of immigration to the United States often contend that the country is a ‘nation of immigrants’, and certainly immigration has played an important role in American history. Nevertheless, immigrants currently represent 13.5 percent of the total U.S. population, the highest percentage in over 100 years. The Census Bureau projects that by 2025, the immigrant share of the population will reach 15 percent, surpassing the United States’ all-time high of 14.8 percent, reached in 1890. Without a change in policy, that share will continue to increase throughout the twenty-first century. Counting immigrants plus their descendants, the Pew Research Center estimates that since 1965, when the United States liberalized its laws, immigration has added 72 million people to the country—a number larger than the current population of France.
Given these numbers, it is striking that public officials in the United States have focused almost exclusively on the country’s 11 to 12 million illegal immigrants, who account for only one-quarter of the total immigrant population. Legal immigration has a much larger impact on the United States, yet the country’s leaders have seldom asked the big questions. What, for example, is the absorption capacity of the nation’s schools and infrastructure? How will the least-skilled Americans fare in labor market competition with immigrants? Or, perhaps most importantly, how many immigrants can the United States assimilate into its culture? Trump has not always approached these questions carefully, or with much sensitivity, but to his credit he has at least raised them”. -Steven Camarota, Foreign Affairs
Civic Nationalists oftentimes claim that second-generation Mexican immigrants are not immigrants, because of paperwork, but fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-generation American colonists somehow are.
The vast majority of post-18th century immigrants to America are unable to adapt to or adopt historical Anglo-American norms. Had American statesmen possessed the wisdom to deport the ethnic lobbyists who seditiously agitated for ending the national origins system, the collapse of the empire would not be rapidly approaching. Now, the necessary solution is considerably less politically palatable. A new Emergency Quota Act is required. Albeit one that restores the 1910 demographics.