Lock the Vote

So in some areas of the country, huge crowds came out yesterday in support of Illegal Aliens, of which there are estimated to be 12 million, give or take. And on a number of news outlets the observation was made that such numbers might have congressional candidates thinking about what kind of legislation they should vote for in Congress.

Well here's what I'm thinking: What illegal aliens want or don't want shouldn't figure into the political calculus of US lawmakers. And why should it? I mean illegal aliens can't vote, so what difference would it make?

Yeah, and illegal aliens can't work in the US either. Big deal.

Back in October of 2003, Steve Brown and Chris Coon writing for FrontPage Magazine were discussing the effect of then California Governor Gray Davis' effort to allow illegal aliens to get drivers licenses. They wrote

Today, millions of Californians are expected to exercise their right to vote. Voter franchise is the key component in our representative government; its sanctity should be paramount. Yet since the rise of big city machine politics and mass immigration in the 19th century the use of voter fraud to influence elections has threatened this fundamental right. This threat has turned into a full-fledged frontal assault in our time. More disturbing than the mass media's refusal to broach the topic is the determination of politicians to continually flout, not only the people's will, but to also the 15^th amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing the right to vote....

Nationwide, the use of immigration policy and the failure to enforce immigration laws were the key to giving Gore his popular vote win. The 2000 election was not an isolated incident; efforts to undermine the electoral process through the nation's immigration policies were a staple of the Clinton years.

A report issued by the Justice Dept. in 2000 detailed a program run under the auspices of then Vice President Gore's "Reinventing Government" project to streamline government services. In a successful effort to clear a backlog of 1.2 million applicants, the INS engaged in this crash program called "Citizenship USA" to naturalize the immigrants between October 1995 and September 1996, not coincidentally, just in time for the presidential election....

The politicization of the INS continued in the 2000 election. As documented by journalist Joseph Farah ,on Nov. 6, 2000, (one day before the national election) the California Democratic Party sent thousands (upwards of 4 million by some estimates) of mailers out to immigrants who had citizenship requests before the INS. These non-citizens were informed, in both English and Spanish, that they were registered to vote as a Democrat and given a special identification card to "help...voting go more smoothly." Follow up investigations by the press pointed to the possible use of INS records to commit this massive voter fraud.

Just last month during the first series of "protests" by the illegal alien "constituency", Michele Malkin noted obvious pandering to illegal voters and quoted Kim Priestap

The fact that the Dems are recruiting at these protests isn't a surprise. It fits into their big picture of race and politics (which is why the flyer's visual puts Texas and Mexico together). The Democrats classify people based upon race and then work to corner the racial voting collectives. At this point, the white vote is already split down the middle, half voting Democrat, half Republican. The Dems have cornered the black voting collective with over 90% voting Democratic. If Democrats manage to corner the Hispanic vote like they have cornered the black vote, Republicans won't win the White House for a very long time. This is the Democrats' dream, so they are trying very hard to collectivize the Hispanic community by turning the immigration issue into another civil rights issue.

It seems to me that an effort should begin now. Today.

That for at least this one election, we should make every effort possible to lock down the vote and keep it out of the hands of illegal aliens. And this initiative should be made very public so that both illegals and lawmakers know for sure that these mostly documented illegals are not going to be voting. After all, it is illegal for them to vote.

It is an understatement to observe that there is a conflict of interest in allowing illegals to vote on their own fate. Don't you think?

I mean it's like saying we should allow death-row inmates to vote on whether or not murder should be legalized.

Legislation may very well be presented and voted on prior to November, and it should be that political repercussions by the illegal alien "constituency" are off the table so that US Lawmakers can make laws that US citizens want made and no one else.

Just this once?

Comments

[JJ Gutierrez]

You are right. And the main problem is that these people, illegal aliens, are counted in the census and are used to determine congressional seats. In the end they dont vote, but they change the weight of some areas in congress. It has happened when nine seats were given to CA taken from mideast states.