Californians resisting voting by illegals

 Ryan Mills:

Opponents of the latest effort to approve illegal-immigrant voting in a California city believe they have a winning strategy that will defeat a ballot measure in Santa Ana and that could be used to stymie the noncitizen-voting movement in other parts of the state as well.

Measure DD, which is on the Santa Ana ballot on Tuesday, would authorize illegal immigrants who reside in Orange County’s second-largest city to vote in municipal elections. By a 4-3 vote, the city council added the measure to the ballot last fall.

More than 300,000 people live in Santa Ana, and the city serves as the county seat.

Supporters of the measure, including the American Civil Liberties Union, say that about a quarter of city residents can’t participate in elections because they aren’t citizens, and that allowing them to vote would make “city-wide elections fair and inclusive.”

“Many have lived here for decades and contribute greatly to the local economy. They pay taxes, own homes and property, run local businesses, work and raise families in Santa Ana,” backers of DD wrote in an official argument of support. “They should be able to vote for the city officials who make decisions impacting their daily lives.”

But opponents of the measure say that allowing illegal immigrants to vote devalues citizenship. James Lacy, a longtime conservative activist and lawyer, said that the right to vote is the “crown jewel” and “the most precious right any citizen in the United States has.”

Lacy told National Review that his campaign, Santa Ana Citizens for Voting, is specifically targeting the many naturalized citizens of Santa Ana who came to the country legally and earned the right to vote after pledging allegiance to the United States.

He believes helping naturalized citizens understand the value of that earned right is the “key to defeating noncitizen voting measures throughout the state of California in communities that have high Hispanic, high Latino registration.”
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Voting should be limited to citizens.  There are millions of Hispanic citizens in this country who are already voters. I grew up with many of them and served in the Marine Corps with them.  They are patriotic Americans.  

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