It’s not news that the Democrat party, led by Barack Obama, hopes to encourage many grateful illegal aliens to vote in support of big liberal government in the next Presidential election and beyond. Former Justice Department lawyer J. Christian Adams explained it particularly well on Judge Jeannine’s show on Saturday.
JUDGE JEANNINE: The White House wants people fully engaged in the Presidential election for 2016. You worked in the Justice Department on voting rights. What is going on in respect to illegals and the possibility of their voting?
ADAMS: The Obama administration is doing everything it can to inject new voters in the 2016 election, Judge. In DHS for example, they’ve issued orders to get all nine million green card holders — these are legal permanent residents — converted to citizenship before the 2016 election. Of course, most of them are going to vote one way: you can understand why the Obama administration is doing this. Those are the people who are here legally.
They’re also affecting the pipeline of people here illegally. The Supreme Court just this week received briefs in a case where the federal government is stopping states like Kansas and Arizona from checking to make sure that people are actually citizens when they register to vote, and the Obama administration justice department, the Election Assistance Commission, which is a federal agency, has tried to block states from making sure that only citizens are registering to vote.
JUDGE JEANNINE: I’m going to stop you right there. You mean if you go to vote and they ask for proof that you’re a citizen, you can say I’m an illegal and the justice department is saying you don’t have a right to ask that question?
ADAMS: That’s exactly right. The Election Assistance Commission produces what’s called a federal registration form. It’s used all over the country in the motor voter law, and Kansas and Arizona asked the federal government to please let us put our state requirements in this form that let people prove they’re citizens, and the Obama/Holder Justice Department fought them every step of the way through the federal district court and the tenth district court of appeal.
JUDGE JEANNINE: So now we have people who can say I’m not a citizen but I’m voting, but you said something motor voter. There are some states in the country that allow you to register and vote in the same day. How do we know people aren’t getting on buses and going from one state to the next state, as long as they can register to vote?
ADAMS: Yeah, it’s called same-day registration and it’s a big problem. You have it in states like Minnesota, Wisconsin other locations. What it does is what you say: you just show up to vote. You say I’m here to register, I live here, and I’d like to cast a ballot please.
JUDGE JEANNINE: There are some state where you don’t even need ID, but hasn’t the Supreme Court ruled on this, Christian?
ADAMS: It has in a narrow sense, judge, only on the facial challenge under the 14th Amendment. There’s lots of other federal laws, like the Voting Rights Act, the 15th Amendment and other civil rights laws that the enemies of election integrity are now using in places like Texas, North Carolina, Wisconsin, to fight voter ID laws, claiming that they are racially discriminatory.
JUDGE JEANNINE: This teas it up not only for an election not based on reality, but for all kinds of election fraud, corruption. At some point you would think the Supreme Court has to pipe in on this, or is this just something that Obama can do, and have all these illegals be citizens on this fast track? Who makes them citizens? Don’t they have to go through a process?
ADAMS: Well of course, the Obama administration has dispensed with that.
But, judge, there are millions of dollars in bricks-and-mortars organizations, charities, super-funded organizations that exist primarily to fight election integrity. They spend all day, all night in court, preparing briefs, lobbying legislatures to preserve the vulnerabilities in our system. It’s something most folks don’t realize is happening.
Democrats have failed in recent decades to convince the American people of the liberal approach to governance, so Dems have focused on the strategy of importing millions from dysfunctional leftist states from Mexico to Pakistan. The newbies see the opportunity offered by America, but most aren’t bright enough to see those positive circumstances are the result of freedom under law, capitalism and minimal interference from government. But US-residing hispanics remain stuck on big government for generations, as shown by a Pew poll. The survey also indicates that traditional assimilation isn’t happening as ethnic groups remain in the cultural mind-set of the ancestral homeland...
