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New Documents Reveal DC Training for Noncitizen
Voting
If you think concerns about illegal aliens becoming voters are overblown,
look no further than your nation’s capital.
We received
13-pages
of records from the District of Columbia explaining to illegal aliens and
other noncitizens how they can register to vote in local elections.
The records came in response to an April 12, 2024, FOIA request for:
- Materials presented and/or provided at
the training;
- Communications advertising/promoting
the training; and
- Materials provided to
participants/attendees after the
training.
On April 10, 2024, DC held a training
event
titled ”Non-Citizen Voting Education Virtual Training” in which DC
announced noncitizen voting would begin in 2024.
A PowerPoint presentation explains:
Non-US citizen residents of the District of Columbia can vote in local
elections under the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022.
Non-US citizen residents can vote in District elections for the offices of
Mayor, Attorney General, Chairman or member(s) of the DC Council, member(s)
of the State [sic] Board of Education, or Advisory Neighborhood
Commissioner(s) Non-US citizen residents cannot vote for Federal Offices
To register to vote in the District of
Columbia as a non-citizen, you must: Be at least 17 years old and 18 years
old by the next General Election; Maintain residency in the District of
Columbia for at least 30 days prior to the election in which you intend to
vote; Not claim voting residence or the right to vote in any state,
territory, or country; Not been found by a court to be legally incompetent
to vote.
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You must provide proof of your address in the District of Columbia at an
Early Vote Center prior to Election Day or at the polling place assigned to
your address on Election Day.
In 2023 the DC Council
amended
the District of Columbia Election Code of 1955 to expand the definition of
the term qualified elector to include otherwise eligible noncitizen
residents, including illegal aliens.
According to
federal
law, only U.S. citizens can vote in federal elections, but a
growing number of state and local elections
allow
noncitizens to vote, among them San Francisco and Oakland, California,
along with some cities in Maryland and Vermont. In February, a state
appeals court ruled a similar New York City law violates the state
constitution.
DC’s law
went
a step further than those jurisdictions, though, by extending the franchise
to undocumented immigrants.
The District’s action was
opposed
by congressional Republicans. but they failed to overturn the measure.
Illegal aliens and noncitizens should not vote in any elections. That
Congress allows the votes of citizens to be legally stolen by illegal
aliens in our nation’s capital is inexcusable.
HHS Rules Certain Illegal Immigrants Eligible for Obamacare
Our Corruption Chronicles blog reports
on the Biden administration latest back-door amnesty for yet another
category of illegal aliens:
Illegal immigrants protected by a controversial Obama amnesty program
for adults who came to the U.S. as children are eligible to receive
government-subsidized health insurance under a new Biden administration
rule that will cost American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars
annually. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently
amended its regulations to extend the publicly funded perk to migrants who
have benefited from Obama’s Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a measure enacted by the former
president by executive order after Congress repeatedly rejected legislation
offering illegal aliens similar protections. The failed bill was called
Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM Act) and those
shielded by Obama’s order are often referred to as Dreamers.
So-called Dreamers specifically do not
qualify for government-subsidized insurance under Obama’s disastrous
healthcare overhaul, officially called the Affordable Care Act (ACA) but
better known as Obamacare. The 2010 measure requires individuals to be
citizens or lawfully present in the United States to enroll in a qualified
health plan through the Obamacare exchange. ACA also requires enrollees to
be lawfully present in the U.S. to be eligible for insurance affordability
programs such as cost sharing reductions and advance payments of the
premium tax credit. A few years after Obamacare passed, HHS issued
regulations that explicitly exclude recipients of the former president’s
DACA from being categorized as lawfully present in the country for the
purpose of subsidized health insurance under ACA. The agency explained that
allowing Dreamers to participate in the government’s insurance
affordability programs was not consistent with the relief that the special
amnesty initiative afforded, a reference to temporary protection from
deportation.
Now HHS has done an about face, issuing a
rule that
makes DACA recipients eligible to enroll in a qualified health plan through
an Obamacare exchange or a state basic health program. “Specifically,
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and certain other
noncitizens will be included in the definitions of “lawfully present”
that are used to determine eligibility to enroll in a QHP through an
Exchange, for Advance Payments of the Premium Tax Credit (APTC) and
Cost-Sharing Reductions (CSRs), or for a BHP,” the new rule states. It
will take effect on November 1 and HHS estimates that it will cost American
taxpayers about $305 million annually. The agency explains in the new
145-page rule that after “further review and consideration, it is clear
that the DACA policy is intended to provide recipients with a degree of
stability and assurance that would allow them to obtain education and
lawful employment, including because recipients remain lower priorities for
removal.” Therefore, the document says, “extending eligibility to these
individuals is consistent with those goals.”
More than half a million illegal immigrants
are currently protected under DACA, according to government figures, and over 800,000 under the age of 31 have been shielded from
deportation and allowed to obtain work permits and drivers licenses since
the measure was enacted. A big chunk of DACA applicants have arrest records,
according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the
Homeland Security agency that administers the nation’s lawful immigration
system. Nearly 110,000 illegal aliens who requested the special Obama-era
amnesty for adults who came to the U.S. as children have criminal histories
for offenses that include assault, battery, rape, murder and driving under
the influence. Tens of thousands of DACA recipients have multiple arrests
and hundreds have more than 10 arrests, according to USCIS.
A few years ago, migrants protected under
DACA were among rioters and looters arrested and criminally charged with crimes during a Black
Lives Matter “Justice for George Floyd” protest in downtown Phoenix,
Arizona. Among them was 30-year-old Mexican national Maxima Guerrero, a
community organizer with a Phoenix-based grassroots migrant justice
organization called Puente Movement. During the riots, Guerrero and her
fellow DACA friends occupied a vehicle “loaded with incendiary
devices,” according to a high-level Phoenix Police source. Now, thanks to
the Biden administration, lawbreakers like Guerrero and her friends can get
their health insurance subsidized by Uncle Sam.
Until next week,
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