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Note warns Calif. Hispanics on voting
Theodoryk
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061017/ap_on_re_us/immigration_voting_threat
SANTA ANA, Calif. - The state attorney general's office is investigating a letter received by some Southern California Hispanics that says it is a crime for immigrants to vote and tells them they could be jailed or deported if they go to the polls next month.
ADVERTISEMENT"It's a very malicious and degrading letter. It's to pull Latinos down and make them afraid," said Benny Diaz, who is running for City Council in Garden Grove. He said his wife and five other people he knows had received the letter.
The letter, written in Spanish, tells recipients: "You are advised that if your residence in this country is illegal or you are an immigrant, voting in a federal election is a crime that could result in jail time."
The truth is that immigrants who become naturalized citizens can legally register to vote.
Nathan Barankin, a spokesman for state Attorney General Bill Lockyer, said the letter was "something we are investigating aggressively right now." He said the sender could be charged with a felony and receive up to three years in state prison.
Several of the people who received the letters appeared to be naturalized citizens, said John Trasvina, interim president and general counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
More Hispanics to vote in California, imo. Maybe then we wouldn't see Cali electing people like the Terminator to office...
"Speaking haygywaygy or some other gibberish with your mum doesn't make you foreign."
-baff
Comments
Congress enacted the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act in 1996. The law makes non-citizens who knowingly cast a ballot in a federal or state election eligible for deportation. It is up to the state officials to ensure that those voting in federal, state and local contests are citizens.
A vote by an illegal immigrant brings in the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a newly formed arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. It would be ICE's job to deport any non-citizen discovered casting a vote, whether they are legal or illegal.
Section 237 (a)(6)(A) of the INA (Immigration and Nationality Act) states that Any alien who has voted in violation of any Federal, State, or local constitutional provision, statute, ordinance, or regulation is deportable.
You HAVE to be a U.S. citizen, 18 years old (or older), and a non-felon. Illegal aliens and even those admitted as permanent residents do not have the right to vote.
I shoot for the curve... anything above that is gravy.
I'll recuse myself...because I really dig hispanic chics and I'm happy as a mothur Phucker that they're here!
Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
Dearest Draenor: You missed the point entirely.
"Speaking haygywaygy or some other gibberish with your mum doesn't make you foreign."
-baff
I shoot for the curve... anything above that is gravy.
I was thinking more along the lines of Webster.
"Speaking haygywaygy or some other gibberish with your mum doesn't make you foreign."
-baff
Fellons can vote in Illinois... Hell Traficante could of ran for office as a fellon in Ohio.
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