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In 2021, New York City passed a law allowing legal immigrants the right to vote in city and borough elections. [79] This law was struck down in June 2022 as violating the New York State constitution, preventing it from going into effect. [80] An appeals court upheld that decision in February 2024, though the city planned to appeal further. [81]
Nearly two dozen voting, civil and immigrant rights groups have called on Youngkin to release more information about the people removed from Virginia’s voter lists, “to ensure that Virginia ...
Aside from the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, there was no applicable deportation law in the United States until an 1882 statute specifically geared towards Chinese immigrants. [1] The Alien and Sedition Acts gave the President of the United States the power to arrest and subsequently deport any alien that he deemed dangerous. [5]
May 23—WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed Congressman August Pfluger's legislation by a bipartisan vote of 262-143 to block noncitizens from voting in ...
A Dispatch reader forwarded a screenshot of a Twitter post he saw shared on Facebook suggesting that illegal immigrants could be able to vote with government-issued ID cards.
Chinese immigrants lose the right to become citizens and thus the ability to gain the right to vote through the Chinese Exclusion Act. [11] [Note 1] Virginia amends their state constitution to eliminate paying the poll tax as a requirement to vote. [25] 1883. Women in Washington Territory earn the right to vote. [26] 1887
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge on Friday blocked Virginia's removal of people it said had not proved their citizenship from its voter rolls, saying it ran afoul of a federal ...
In 2004, the Federation for American Immigration Reform cooperated with the group called Protect Arizona Now in order to support the passage of Proposition 200, which shares similarities with California's Proposition 187 as to which undocumented immigrants are restricted from public benefits and voting because they are most likely unable to ...