Will 2020 be the most dangerous year yet for the United States Constitution?
Recently, Senator Sheldon WhiteHouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, threatened the United States Supreme Court. In essence, he stated that if the high court did not rule the way leftist Democrats wish on a case involving another instance of New York City’s harassment of those exercising Second Amendment Rights, he would push to “pack” the court with additional leftist judges. He was joined on this attack on the Constitution by fellow Democrat Senators Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Richard Durbin of Illinois, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York.
This was yet another attack on the Constitution by the left. Startling proposals and legislation pushed by Democrat presidential candidates, elected officials, and the legislative bodies and jurisdictions they dominate need to be listened to far more carefully. They are a road map to the diminution of the United States, and the rights of every citizen.
In March, House Democrats voted to defend localities that allow illegal immigrants to vote in their elections. Only six Democrats voted against the measure. Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Tx) stated to Fox News “What kind of government would cancel the vote of its own citizens, and replace it with noncitizens?”
Federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections. If the Democrats do well in the 2020 election, that could be changed.
The cost of this strange tilt towards illegal aliens and away from the needs of U.S. citizens, particularly seniors and homeless veterans, was reviewed in 2016 by Federation for Immigration Reform study:
- Illegal immigration costs U.S. taxpayers about $113 billion a year at the federal, state and local level. The bulk of the costs — some $84 billion — are absorbed by state and local governments.
- The annual outlay that illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers is an average amount per native-headed household of $1,117. The fiscal impact per household varies considerably because the greatest share of the burden falls on state and local taxpayers whose burden depends on the size of the illegal alien population in that locality
- Education for the children of illegal aliens constitutes the single largest cost to taxpayers, at an annual price tag of nearly $52 billion. Nearly all of those costs are absorbed by state and local governments.
- At the federal level, about one-third of outlays are matched by tax collections from illegal aliens. At the state and local level, an average of less than 5 percent of the public costs associated with illegal immigration is recouped through taxes collected from illegal aliens.
- Most illegal aliens do not pay income taxes. Among those who do, much of the revenues collected are refunded to the illegal aliens when they file tax returns. Many are also claiming tax credits resulting in payments from the U.S. Treasury.
The 2016 figures cited by the Federation have risen in the past several years.
Not content with allowing noncitizens to vote, many prominent Democrats seek to allow convicted felons to cast ballots as well. The Hill reports that Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) wants to extend the vote even to the worst felons, still incarcerated. “You’re paying a price, you committed a crime, you’re in jail. That’s bad,” Sanders told The Hill. “But you’re still living in American society and you have a right to vote.”
The reason for the Democrats’ interest in this topic is clear. According to an NYU study, “disenfranchisement laws tend to take more votes from Democratic than from Republican candidates. Analysis shows that felon disenfranchisement played a decisive role in U.S. Senate elections in recent years. Moreover, at least one Republican presidential victory would have been reversed if former felons had been allowed to vote… felon voters showed strong Democratic preferences in both presidential and senatorial elections…even comparatively unpopular Democratic candidates… would have garnered almost 70 percent of the felon vote.”
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