Thirty-eight Congressman are co-sponsors of Senate Bill 3403 entitled “Protecting Our Democracy by Preventing Foreign Citizens from Voting Act”.
The legislation was first introduced by Congressman Jeff Duncan, a Republican Congressional representative from South Carolina, in 2018. Each legislative session since, has seen the reintroduction of the bill. Senator Marco Rubio, Republican from Florida, and 36 others, including Colorado House member Doug Lamborn, are sponsoring the bill.
The primary purpose of the bill is to prohibit federal funds from being made available to state or local governments that allow noncitizens to vote in federal, state, or local elections.
Among places that allow illegal immigrants to vote include New York, San Francisco, and even some suburbs in the Washington D.C. area.
“Voting in this country is a right that should solely be limited to American citizens. Allowing non-citizens or illegal immigrants to vote, even if only in state or local elections, gives foreign nationals influence on some of the most important decisions impacting our families, our rights, and our representation in government,” said Congressman Jeff Duncan. “Non-citizen voting has the potential to exacerbate the border crisis and cause a greater erosion of confidence in our electoral process. “
“It’s ridiculous that states are allowing foreign citizens to vote,” Senator Marco Rubio said. “However, if states and localities do let those who are not U.S. citizens to vote in elections, they shouldn’t get U.S. citizen taxpayer money.”
The problem continues to grow. In a New York Times article published on October 22, 2021, Eileen Sullivan and Miriam Jordan shared that illegal immigrant were encountered 1.7 million times in the last twelve months, the highest number of illegal crossings recorded since at least 1960. That number was also high in 2000 when border agents caught 1.6 million people, according to government data.
In September 2020, about 25% of those caught were repeat offenders.
The key words in the last two years would be “encountered” and “caught”. No accurate numbers on how many illegals didn’t get encountered or caught were found.
In an article written for the Center for Immigration Studies in November 2021 by Steven Camarota and Karen Ziegler, they stated the immigration population (legal and illegal) had hit 46.2 million as of November 2021. That makes immigrants 14.2 percent of the U.S. population. That is the highest percentage in 111 years. The immigrant share of the population has tripled since 1970.
Again, according to the NYT story,” Single adults represented the largest group of those detained in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, at 1.1 million, or 64 percent of all crossers. There were also large numbers of migrant families — more than 479,000, which is about 48,000 fewer than during the last surge in family crossings in 2019.
“The crossers hailed from around the globe, many of them seeking economic opportunity as the coronavirus pandemic erased hundreds of millions of jobs. Agents caught people from more than 160 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, with Mexico accounting for the largest share.”
According to Wikipedia a few nations allow illegals to vote. Those include Brazil, Cape Verde, Norway, Uruguay, Venezuela, Chile, Argentina, Iceland, Colombia, New Zealand, and Peru. The rest of the 195 nations in the world generally do not allow illegal immigrants to vote in elections.
The Center for Immigration Studies said that between November 2020 and November 2021, the states with the largest increases in immigrants were Florida (up 615,000), California (up 451,000), Arizona (up 173,000), Wisconsin (up 156,000), and Virginia (up 135,000).
If this matters to you it might be a good time to contact your elected representatives. Voting is a precious right. There is a reason that a large majority of the countries in the world retain that precious right for citizens of that country. Once citizenship is bestowed on anyone, through legal proper channels, I welcome them as fellow voters. Until they make the effort, not so much. How about you?