House Democrats in New York largely declined to comment Monday on whether non-citizens should be allowed to vote in New York City’s city elections.
New York Court of Appeals hears lawsuits passed in 2022 by the New York City Council on Tuesday, allowing approximately 800,000 non-citizens of the city to allow green cards or workers to vote in local government elections .
House Democrats representing parts of New York City or surrounding areas in New York are largely silent on whether they support a non-citizen vote. majority American, Republican lawmaker, President Donald Trump. The Daily Carener News Foundation has contacted a Democrat New York official. Laura Gillen, Tom Suozzi, Pat Ryan, Josh Reilly and John Manion asked if they would support New York City’s non-citizen voting law. (Related: FEMA quietly slips $59 million through the door for illegal immigrants to step into “luxurious hotels,” Musk says.
All non-House Democrats manions did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the DCNF. A Mannion spokesman told the DCNF that the newly elected House Democrats do not support non-citizen votes in city elections.
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All five Democrats represent the competitive New York district and are vulnerable to Republican challengers. Gillen, Riley and Mannion are the first democratic lawmakers who defeated the incumbent of the GOP last November.
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), House Republican Campaign Division, Torching Jillen, Riley, Suzzi and Ryan refused to state their positions on non-citizen voting.
“After Biden allows millions of illegal immigrants, New York Democrats refuse to stand up to the party’s denunciation scheme that allows non-citizens to vote,” said the National Republican Party. Congressional Committee spokesman Ben Petersen told DCNF. “Their deafening silence proves that they prioritize open border ideology outside their touch than our divine voting rights.”
Democrat New York Rep. John Mannion will speak at a campaign event held in Geddes, New York on October 24th (Craig Rattle/AP)
New York City’s non-citizen voting law has been the subject of multiple lawsuits ever since Mayor Eric Adams refused to reject the bill and allowed the law to become law. Several New York courts have broken the law, saying that the non-citizen voting law violates the New York State Constitution.
House Republicans in New York are widely opposed to non-citizen votes.
“Tomorrow I’ll return to the third courtroom to stop NYC’s unconstitutional non-citizens vote Law, “Republican New York State Rep. Nicole Mariotakis I wrote it On X on February 10th.
Non-citizen votes in local elections are not widespread in the United States, but practices are permitted in local elections nationwide, including San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Burlington and Virginia.
The House of Representatives passed the law in May 2024 to repeal the DC non-citizen voting law, but the bill died in the once Democrat-controlled Senate.
Voters in eight states approved a constitutional amendment in November last year that prohibits non-citizen voting in state and local elections.
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