Alarming reality of Californias noncitizen voting problem is exposed and so are the Dems who excuse it

Finally, the federal government is taking noncitizen voting seriously. Congress made it a crime years ago, but you wouldn’t have known it because the law was rarely enforced.This year, federal agents have arrested multiple aliens who were registering and voting in California.Expect Operation Protect the Vote to find more.

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By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.Never miss a story For years, American institutions turned a blind eye to aliens on the voter rolls.

Times are changing, and aliens who thought they could get away with voting would be wise to reconsider.Those on the organized left pretended noncitizen voting was a fairy tale.They still do.The lack of prosecutions wasn’t because of a lack of aliens on California voter rolls.

They have been visible to anyone who wanted to ask the right questions.Sanctuary city policies make the problem worse.San Francisco is one of many in California.

There, Elizaveta Shuvalova, a Russian citizen, registered to vote.She was registered to vote until she returned an absentee ballot that said, “I am a Russian citizen!”The Public Interest Legal Foundation documented the relation between California sanctuary city policies to hundreds of aliens ending up on the rolls.Sanctuary city policies made the problem of aliens registering and voting worse.In Oakland, aliens actually told election officials on the voter registration form that they were not citizens, but they were registered anyway. That’s how ridiculous things were before the change in enforcement policies by the Trump administration.

Aliens begged to be removed from the rolls, because the federal government wasn’t doing its job across the decades.Over and over, the system broke down. California election laws are notorious for doing everything the opposite of what they should do ...