(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Chicago’s new far-left mayor-elect, Brandon Johnson, has already proposed allowing illegal immigrants to vote in local elections, potentially helping to secure his own political prospects and avoid the fate of his one-term predecessor, Lori Lightfoot.
Johnson promised to allow illegals (and other inelligible foreign residents) to vote in school board elections, according to Breitbart News.
Johnson explained his plan in his platform: “Work with Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois General Assembly in Springfield to pass legislation that will allow all parents and taxpayers to vote in school board elections, regardless of citizenship status,” it proclaims.
Plans to open Chicago’s local school board elections to foreign nationals would mimic a Democrat-approved plan in Washington, D.C., which sought to allow some 50,000 foreign nationals, including illegal aliens, to vote in the district’s municipal elections before congressional Republicans shot the idea down.
Another similar plan was passed in New York City butwas struck down by the state’s Supreme Court, per Breitbart.
However, more than a dozen smaller blue-run municipalities in Maryland and Vermont currently allow noncitizen voting, and other cities, including San Francisco, have attempted to enact laws.
While it is statutorily illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections, relaxed election-integrity procedures such as mail-in voting and other leftists maneuvers under the auspices of “ballot access” make it likely that many illegals might accidentally violate the law with impunity.
It is doubtful that they would be prosecuted for their crimes by George Soros-backed State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who has faced considerable criticism for her selective and politically motivated enforcement of the law in Chicago’s Cook County.
In addition to his endorsement of noncitizen voting, Johnson has promised to promote the security of illegals over the safety and sovereignty of American citizens in other ways, including increased aid with housing assistance.
“Build permanent housing for all unhoused, including asylum seekers, by passing the Bring Chicago Home ordinance and enacting other pieces of the $1 billion Better Chicago Agenda,” he wrote in his official platform.
Johnson also pledged to end the city’s database tracking gang membership because, he said, it “punish[es] Black and Brown communities without the right to due process.”
The policies are unlikely to have a positive impact on Chicago’s serious problems—most notably the rampant crime, which Lightfoot failed to address after campaigning heavily on the issue in her 2019 victory.
Still, Johnson proclaimed the start of a new era.
“Tonight is the beginning of a Chicago that truly invests in all of its people,” he said.
“Today the dream is alive,” he continued, invoking black civil-rights luminaries Martin Luther King Jr. and Chicago native Jesse Jackson. “Today we celebrate the revival and the resurrection of the city of Chicago.”
Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.
