Are there any like, articles or videos of anyone prominent saying they want illegal immigrants to be able to vote? Overall I am confused what the argument
for it is supposed to be.
I think it's been mentioned "so illegals will vote for them", them being people who want illegals to vote. But that was never really an argument for the American people- like, people care about the economy and things, they aren't particularly concerned about giving illegals the ability to vote in order to ensure their political candidates win. That is more a politician's type of position, right?
I think you will be hard pressed to find any average American who is not glued to extreme reddit threads openly say they want to give illegal aliens the right to vote. To me that begs the question of what the purpose of this thread was. My guess would be, genuine concern that people do think this based off of media possibly reporting it. I've seen these mainstream media channels too and the types of things they report on MSNBC, CBS, FOX NEWS, and the spin on these stories is crazy.
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@just me , I know this tangent is slightly off topic and I am not trying to hijack your thread but I do think it is also super related.
We used to have the "Fairness Doctrine" in the USA, when television was first introduced. That was such a massive technology that there was serious concern over issues of public importance and representing both/as many sides as possible of an issue. But in 1969 the Supreme Court made a ruling which created a loophole in this and as algorithms and online media bubbles expand it just seems to make it all worse. Even Trump touched on this with "fake news", it resonated with people because indeed, there is a lot of salacious stories that have very little truth or substance and are being blown out of proportion.
Even though personally I do believe there is a legitimate concern in this country over border security and influx in undocumented immigrants to this country, taking it further to speculate as to why it is happening and saying it is because Democrats are trying to get more people to vote for them, that really just subverts the important issue. I keep asking it myself: what is up with the border? Why are there more people coming in now rather than years before? Is it really worse than it was before, and if it was, why, and if it isn't, why is it being reported this way? I can't claim to know the answers to this but it is a little disheartening to see this not being approached from a data-driven perspective. Probably because there is no data to support or refute this claim because it is more of an opinion claim. I share the concern over illegal immigration in terms of how it can impact the country's infrastructure, tax system, and so on and so forth. But politician arguments like these are nothing more than a dog and pony show that gets people all worked up and results in zero serious policy reform. As far as exhaustive google searches have led me, there has never been any legislation on a federal level introduced which would allow illegal immigrants to vote on a federal level.
Now, we can talk about on a state level. San Francisco, for example, has allowed undocumented workers as the term is there to vote in things like city council and on the board of education. But you know what? In some sense that makes sense in a states law viewpoint. Who am I to police how a state runs themselves? If one state becomes a refuge for undocumented workers, that will be their tax burden and different laws will apply in the surrounding states. If all states adopted those policies, that would represent the attitudes of the country, wouldn't it? This would not end up happening, I can already promise. People who fear that it would don't have a lot of confidence in the evidence their opinions are based on.
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