Letting Noncitizens Vote: City Council’s Latest Folly

It’s bad enough that President Biden wants to compensate illegal immigrants who were separated at the border, but now the City Council wants to allow noncitizens to vote (“Green card voters,” Nov. 24).

What kind of Alice in Wonderland country am I living in?

Paul L. Newman Merion Station, Pa.

In just one month, New York City’s radical-Democratic City Council members removed Thomas Jefferson’s statue from City Hall and are about to grant noncitizens the right to cancel out the votes of American citizens.

What will they do for their next trick? Ban possession of copies of the Constitution within city limits?

Nick McNulty Windham, NH

For Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez (D-Manhattan) to suggest that green-card holders and recipients of deferred immigration action have the right to vote alongside legal American citizens is to make a mockery of our voting rights and policies.

Rodriguez and his City Council cohorts have a very twisted and condescendingly arrogant grasp on voting statutes and limitations. That these noncitizens would only vote in elections that concern the mayor, comptroller and city council is of no consequence.

The councilmembers care nothing about the ties that bind a community together. They care only about what they deem as arbitrary barriers to expanding their brand of democracy and an agenda for globalization.

Theresa Caso-O’Brien Melville

Approving voting rights for thousands of noncitizens in New York City is moving our nation in the wrong direction.

Even though greencard holders will only be able to vote in local elections, it is chipping away at our Constitution. And after that gets underway, the push for illegal immigrants to vote in our national elections will probably be next.

This is a slap in the face to all of those who came to this country legally and are now naturalized citizens. What about felons who are still disenfranchised voters, even after serving time in prison?

Most important, this is a Democratic plan to keep themselves in power permanently.

JoAnn Lee Frank

Clearwater, Fla.

THE ISSUE: The City Council’s drive to let green-card and work-visa holders vote in NYC elections.