Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the recommendations of the New York City election voting rights, will mark the largest expansion of efforts to rights.
Measures in the City Council heard the broadcast on Thursday, New York's largest locale will allow non-citizens to vote. Advocates estimated that more than 800,000 green card and visa holders will be able to help select the Mayor, Council members and other city officials.
Recommendations, which is a feisty debate in Washington over overhaul immigration laws in the game, may expand the citizens' right to vote on whether to retain or embrace the new premise, they also have shares in Social decades-long debate.
"We are all involved in politics, because we are born and people expect the government to work for them must be involved in the political process," Dominican migrants Jose Torrero said in an interview with reporters, through a translator.
Torrero, 70 years old, left Santo Domingo to New York to attend his daughter four years ago, has a green card. He was ready to apply for naturalization, but it may be a few years away. In his hometown, he was active in politics, he wanted to emigrate, to create employment opportunities and other issues, who shared his views on the New York vote for a candidate.
Although immigration and voting rights advocates see the taxpayers' problem of equity and citizen participation, some public officials of non-citizens the right to vote and others Province of citizens as a fundamental target for new arrivals privileges held by vote .
"Voting is our most important rights as citizens, and you have to go through the process to become citizens, and declared allegiance to this country, front right, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said:" Through a spokesman.
No vote has been scheduled measures to face the legal and political issues.
In a country that describes itself as a nation of immigrants, many countries once let non-citizens vote. These policy changes in the 1930s, the anti-immigrant sentiment and other political current time, 海杜克罗恩, a professor of political science at Queens College, wrote a book immigrant vote.
In recent decades, the idea has been something of a revival. A half-dozen Maryland City, four Massachusetts towns OK'd, but is waiting for the approval of the country, Chicago vote in the let immigrants School parliamentary elections in. Immigrants the right to vote initiative in 2010 in San Francisco and Portland, Maine, was defeated at the polls.
In New York City, non-citizens can vote for the school board, 30 years, until the board was disbanded shortly after Bloomberg took office in 2002.
Members Daniel Dromm will open all municipal elections foreigners in the country's laws and at least 6 months has been living in New York City. They will register the municipal voters "as a separate category, but together with the referendum.
The idea has been floating in Parliament for many years, but it now has enough sponsors to pass. Dromm said he believed the mayor veto adequate coverage, it should come.
Patron quoted Most of the complaints in the United States - pay taxes without representation - They pointed out that citizens can take a decade or more to acquire. Some to combat democratic ideals heart problems.
8 years Aga Saleh obtain U.S. citizenship after he left Lahore, Pakistan, he was sad, United States "government of the people, by the people" do not apply to him.
"This is a dream, Perhaps this American democracy," said Saleh, who helped lead the Queens group, at Thursday's hearing.
The advocates also said that the vote will help immigrants and their political leaders, and vice versa.
, "City councilor Ydanis Rodriguez in an interview with reporters, said:" I think it will hear them loud and clear. Licey Translation of the Dominican Republic, as a teenage immigrants in 1983, he taught in a public school in 2000, the election of local officials, but not to vote for them to become a U.S. citizen before.
New York State election law prohibits the immigrant vote, advocate and mayor's office disputes the City Council has the right to allow it in the city. In any case, this will require the Voting Rights Act in line with the review of the federal authorities.
City Board of Education election lawyers expressed concern about the basic idea of ??the potential costs and logistics letter this week in the implementation of the plan, but they did not express an opinion.
Assembly Speaker Christine Quinn, the exercise considerable control over what measures the purpose of voting, no one position on the recommendations.
 
 



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