New York’s noncitizen voting push exposes Dems’ real immigration agenda

OPINION:

The collapse of our southern border presided over by the Biden administration isn’t the result of incompetence. It’s not an effort to provide the American dream to those fleeing oppression. It’s one part of a radical strategy to arrest power away from U.S. citizens, disenfranchise millions of Republican voters and devalue American citizenship. 

We’ve suspected this since Jan. 20, but now the real designs of this self-inflicted national crisis are clear. 

The New York City Council’s approval this week of a measure allowing some 800,000 noncitizens to vote in local elections represents a public shift into the next phase of this scheme. 

To be sure, there is inherent racism in the left’s thinking that immigrants are monolithic, and those who are on government assistance will reflexively vote Democrat. The Biden-Sanders immigration policy is simple, devious and a clear attempt to manipulate more minorities for political advantage.  

There are people in this country who still believe the Democratic Party is the party of the Kennedys and FDR. You can hardly blame them. Former President Bill Clinton signed the 1996 federal law that bans noncitizens from voting in federal elections. 

They can’t bring themselves to imagine that their party has shifted so dramatically that it will blatantly ignore the law, intentionally dismantle our defenses and purposely flood the country with millions of illegal immigrants — not to mention drugs and criminals — all to replenish the ranks of the increasingly far-left institution. 

It’s a vision that aims to fundamentally change the political environment to ensure a grip on power and increase the size of America’s dependent class.

Proponents of New York’s noncitizen voting rules are quick to point out that they must have green cards, work visas and be city residents for a whopping 30 days to gain the right to vote in city elections. Anyone paying attention to the government in Gotham should expect fraud and abuse of those requirements. Anyone who has watched the left advance its agenda overall should realize that this is only the beginning.

Citizenship won’t be far behind. The provisions of President Biden’s Build Back Better bill work hand-in-glove with this strategy to pad the voter rolls with millions of noncitizens.

Legitimizing illegal immigrants was tested in this year’s November elections with a referendum that would have counted illegals in the New York census for redistricting and state aid purposes. The measure went down 55.8 to 44.1 percent. But the state legislature, totally controlled by city Democrats, is expected after the 2022 elections to attempt again in some fashion to expand the legitimacy of noncitizens.

Noncitizen voting in New York City will mean never electing a Republican mayor again and ensure a Democrat-socialist city council in perpetuity. Expanding noncitizen voting beyond the city, should such efforts survive legal challenges, could mean wiping out Republicans in the suburbs and statewide as well. 

For sanctuary jurisdictions like New York and California, even undocumented immigrants can be considered residents, eligible for taxpayer-funded services and support. The Golden State has an estimated 3 million people who are either undocumented or have some form of legal status. Illinois, nearly another million. New York nearly 2 million.

The legitimacy of voting will depress already waning efforts to enforce immigration laws. Democrats hope that the enormity of the problem and the infusion of noncitizens with as many rights and privileges of citizenship will produce acquiescence on the part of the broader population to a new normal.

For those saying to themselves, “this won’t impact my state,” guess again. The bigger the blue states get and the larger their dependent populations, the more federal dollars they will require for a range of social services. That means bigger federal programs, higher taxes on all Americans and siphoning money away from other areas of the country to finance the left’s political advance. 

It’s just another step toward cheapening what it means to be an American. Attempting to erode national identity and security for political gain is a new low. Still, thanks to New York, at least now the Democrats’ ruse on immigration is out in the open.

• Tom Basile is an author, a former Bush Administration official and the host of “America Right Now” and “Wake Up America Weekend” on Newsmax Television.