Should foreigners currently residing in the United States have the right to vote?
A foreigner is defined a person who is not a citizen of the United States. Federal law has prohibited noncitizens from voting in federal election since the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act was passed in 1996. Punishment includes fines, imprisonment, inadmissibility, and deportation. Exempt from punishment is any noncitizen who, at the time of voting, had two natural or adoptive U.S. citizen parents, who began permanently living in the United States before turning 16 years old, and who reasonably believed that they were a citizen of the United States. Federal law…
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@9TNZW722yrs2Y
For many people this topic is race dependent on peoples answers. It simply isn't though.
It's as easy as this. If you are a legal citizen of the Unites States - whether you are White, Black, Asian, Mexican, Hmong, ETC - you should be eligible to vote.
But if you are illegal - whether you are White, Black, Asian, Mexican, Hmong, ETC - you should not be able to vote.
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@9MMRBXS2yrs2Y
Absolutely not. That is the worst idea. Obviously they will vote for anything to do with dealing with border opening and that will make America a very unsafe country. That would open the doors to so many terrorist. They would also vote for anything to do with getting money from the government since there not from here there not going to care about what happens with the economy here.
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