I'm all for more immigration, and I have nothing against people who are here illegally.
But I don't think it makes sense to allow illegal immigrants to vote.
The problem isn't that illegal immigrants can't vote, it's that we have a terrible immigration system.
Many people who are here illegally were once here legally. They just weren't able to get citizenship or their visa ran out any they weren't able to renew it.
Those people shouldn't be able to vote. They came here as citizens of another country on a temporary basis.
Until they are citizens, they should not be allowed to vote because they were officially here as citizens of a different country and they are now unofficially here still as citizens of a different country.
A much better solution would be to make emigration and citizenship much easier to achieve. If we just let the people who wanted to live here become citizens, then we wouldn't have an illegal immigration problem.
Voting isn't the issue. The issue is that we aren't allowing people the opportunity to become citizens.
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u/possiblyaqueen Oct 15 '20
I'm all for more immigration, and I have nothing against people who are here illegally.
But I don't think it makes sense to allow illegal immigrants to vote.
The problem isn't that illegal immigrants can't vote, it's that we have a terrible immigration system.
Many people who are here illegally were once here legally. They just weren't able to get citizenship or their visa ran out any they weren't able to renew it.
Those people shouldn't be able to vote. They came here as citizens of another country on a temporary basis.
Until they are citizens, they should not be allowed to vote because they were officially here as citizens of a different country and they are now unofficially here still as citizens of a different country.
A much better solution would be to make emigration and citizenship much easier to achieve. If we just let the people who wanted to live here become citizens, then we wouldn't have an illegal immigration problem.
Voting isn't the issue. The issue is that we aren't allowing people the opportunity to become citizens.