The New York City Council has filed an appeal to the state’s Supreme Court to reverse an intermediate appellate court’s decision that struck down the city’s proposed legislation, Local Law 11, allowing non-citizens to vote in the New York’s municipal elections.
“The New York City council is asking the state’s Supreme Court to allow illegal immigrants to vote in the city’s municipal elections.
In 2021, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a law that would have allowed 800,000 non-citizens with green cards, visas, and work permits to vote as long as they have resided in the city for at least 30 consecutive days.
However, the controversial law was struck down last month by an appellate court.
New York City Council spokesperson Rendy Desamour arrived in court on Tuesday to beg the Supreme Court of the State of New York to override the rulings and allow the council to start authorizing illegal immigrants to vote.
‘Today’s filing to appeal the Second Department’s recent decision seeks a determination from the state’s highest court that the law is consistent with the State Constitution, Election Law, and the Municipal Home Rule Law’, Desamour said. ‘Empowering New Yorkers to participate in our local democratic process can only strengthen New York City by increasing civic engagement’.
The council argued that illegal immigrants living in the city should be able to vote because they pay taxes and make contributions to the community”. -Sarah Arnold, Townhall
Considering that it was the Republican Party of the post-Civil Rights era that supported flooding the United States labor market with millions of foreign workers as well as granting an amnesty that would give green cards to millions of illegal aliens holding American jobs, choosing whether to cast blame on the Democrats for foreigners being granted equal representation, or the Republicans for allowing them entry into the country in the first place, is a bit like asking yourself if the chicken or the egg came first.