State election officials testified before Congress on Thursday that due to the driver’s licenses and Social Security numbers illegal immigrants will receive from Obama’s temporary deportation amnesty, a major loophole will be created that will allow them to vote in elections.
Although it remains illegal for noncitizens to vote, officials won’t be able to detect illegals who chose to register anyway with forms that are accessible at multiple locations within any city.
Anyone registering to vote attests that he or she is a citizen, but Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted said mass registration drives often aren’t able to give due attention to that part, and so illegal immigrants will still get through.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris W. Kobach said even some motor vehicle bureau workers automatically ask customers if they want to register to vote, which some noncitizens in the past have cited as their reason for breaking the law to register.
“It’s a guarantee it will happen,” Mr. Kobach said.
Democrats disputed that it was an issue at all, saying Mr. Obama’s new policy, which could apply to more than 4 million illegal immigrants, doesn’t change anything in state or federal law.
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s nonvoting member of Congress, accused Republicans of an effort at voter suppression.
“The president’s executive order gives immigrants the right to stay — immigrants who have been here for years, immigrants who have been working hard and whose labor we have needed,” Ms. Norton said. “The Republicans may want to go down in history as the party who tried once again 100 years later to nullify the right to vote. Well, I am here to say they shall not succeed.”
Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, Massachusetts Democrat, said he doubted illegal immigrants would risk running afoul of the law — which could get them deported — just to be an insignificant part of an election.
The hearing was the latest GOP effort to dent Mr. Obama’s executive action, announced in November, which grants tentative legal status and work permits to as many as 4 million illegal immigrant parents whose children are either U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. The president also expanded a 2012 policy for so-called Dreamers, or illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, granting them tentative legal status and work permits as well.
Republicans say there are a host of unintended consequences, including the chances of illegal voting, a perverse incentive created by Obamacare that would make newly legalized workers more attractive to some businesses than American workers and complications with the tax code.
The newly legalized workers can apply for back refunds from the IRS even for years when they didn’t file their taxes, agency Commissioner John Koskinen told Congress on Wednesday.
Mr. Koskinen said the White House never spoke with him about potential consequences before Mr. Obama announced his policy changes. The secretaries of state who testified to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Thursday said they too never heard from Mr. Obama ahead of time.
Mr. Husted has written the Obama administration asking for help in identifying the name and date of birth of all noncitizens who get Social Security numbers, which he said would allow states to go back and clear illegally registered voters from their rolls.
He said the administration hasn’t responded.
Well that is exactly what this page does. Craft a misleading title to make people freak out because they know they won’t take the time to read or try to understand. It’s sad really….in the information age when so many people choose ignorance.
Time for war
A civil war is coming and if most of you are not prepared for it you better get ready because it is coming
BS
This action of this action of OBAMA and Democrats being totally out of control and Congress not listening or caring what voters think. As soon as the truth came out he is not an American he should have been impeached. He’s done more harm to peace in the whole world single handed but he’ll never lead this new world he wants and thinks is best for all of us who he wants to support him. We’re to stupid and he needs to think for us.
Go figure!!! Stupid bastard!!!
This is what BHO is looking for!! All the ILLEGALS voting for him! And a civilar so he can arrest or killall the REAL AMRICANS and become the Dictator he aspires to !!
Its easier to follow blindly then think for themselves. It is sad. Yes they have the local resident voting act of 2015 is crazy. Then again I’m not sure the amnesty is legal either. So I guess its all on level playing field at least. I don’t know about you Don but I remember when reporters and anchormen took reporting serious. They just told the news. They didn’t try to make people see it their way. Then again I may have been to young and ignorant to catch it, but I wonder where responsibility in the news business went.
This was his plan all along!! I’m not surprised!! This man is evil!!!
Then again responsibility in all aspects of government and leadership in America. Lol