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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (196847)3/2/2023 1:55:04 PM
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Legal immigrants infuriated by 'nefarious' DC plan to let illegal migrants vote

Washington, DC, City Council says bill for allowing noncitizens to vote is now law


By Elizabeth Heckman | Fox News

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Legal immigrants slam noncitizens being given voting rights in DC: 'Undervalues' American citizenship

Legal U.S. immigrants are expressing outrage after the Washington, D.C., City Council said its bill to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections is now law.

Immigrants Mike Diaz and Alma Ohene-Opare joined " Fox & Friends First" on Wednesday to voice their opposition to undocumented immigrants being permitted to vote so long as they have resided in D.C. for at least 30 days.

"Why are we devaluing American citizenship?," asked Ohene-Opare, a Ghanaian immigrant who became a U.S. citizen after nearly two decades of living and working in the country.

"What does it mean to be American anymore? Is there anything that differentiates the American citizen from anybody who just comes into this country?"


DC FIGHTS BACK, URGES SENATE NOT TO REJECT THE EASED CRIMINAL PENALTIES AND ALLOWANCE FOR NON-CITIZEN VOTING



District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks during a news conference in Washington on Nov. 9, 2022. The city has fought to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

The City Council passed the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act amid criticism from Republicans. Congress had a 30-day review period, during which lawmakers could have pushed to block the legislation.

The review period ended last week, the council said Monday, WAMU reported. The House pushed to block the D.C. law from taking effect, but the Senate ran out of time before the review period ended.

Ohene-Opare questioned Democrats' motives behind the voting changes that are "disenfranchising American citizens."

"I've been here for 18 years or more than 18 years, and I've never seen any concerted effort on the part of legal immigrants to push for this kind of rights," he said. "And so I'm wondering, is there a kind of nefarious purpose behind this?"



Alma Ohene-Opare and his wife swear the Oath of Allegiance and become U.S. citizens. (Fox News Digital)

Diaz, a father of four who lives in California, said he's seen firsthand the left's efforts to change communities by targeting voting laws.



"I was an elected official here in my community, and I've seen some of the efforts that the left has pushed to try to change how we vote and how we change our communities," Diaz said, adding the D.C. legislation should "anger all of us."

"I did it the legal way like many, many have," he said. "And I did that so I could become a productive citizen, but more importantly, to be able to vote.

"It's interesting how when you are given something, you don't respect it the same way you do when you earn it."

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Ohene-Opare argued there are many different avenues noncitizens can take to be involved in politics without voting and warned of potential consequences.

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"We're also legalizing foreign interference in our elections, because if you can just come here and 30 days later be able to vote without any allegiance to this country, what are we going to get?," he asked.

"Eventually, the goal is to transform this country fundamentally. And the question is, what exactly are they trying to transform this country into?"

Fox News' Louis Casiano contributed to this report.



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Re <<As I've written from the beginning, Zbigniew, Freeland, Boris and many have ancestral hatred of Russians. Combine that with anti USSR mania in general, throw in great ignorance, recognize that Boris, Obama, Biden Pelosi, Graham and so many are ipso facto arrogant chimpoids who relentlessly sought power and love it.>>

... I remain agnostic on proximate cause(s) of the war, script play, and the finale. I am certain of one fact, that many are fighting it, some shall lose, and the war itself shall end with either a negotiated peace, or an outright Carthage-peace, and somewhat depends on whether the collective west do rug-pull on Ukraine and fail to stand up against Russia until Russia changes.

The Ukrainians are certainly fighting, but so are the Russians. Should collective west believe in the Ukrainian cause, as presented by the MSM and politicians, then best activate war economy and get on with boots on the ground.

Re <<China's western border has been moved to Hungary, Finland, Norway, Germany, Baltics, Turkey, Romania Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland.>>

... I did note, back in 2011 Message 27249873
... etc etc, and so yes, mathematically speaking now Poland is sharing a border with Team China.

On 24th February 2022 my Russian friend spoke with me over the phone, and the first sentence out of his mouth was, "J, you know that the Russians are now fighting for the Chinese right?" and my response was simply "Yes, I do know".

Earlier still, 2009, I noted ... Message 25756797


In any case, as far as the details shrouding the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, when it started, how it began, who did what to whom when and how, why, ... final victory happens how, when, etc etc, I remain agnostic. Given that there is no final victory in so many conflicts, nothing makes the Russo-Ukrainian conflict particularly special in this regard.

In the meantime, NBC reporter Keri Simmons managed to get himself on the Ukrainian kill-list the website of which is hosted in Langley Virginia. Perhaps there is a court case in this ukrainian kill list langley virginia



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NBC Reporter Goes To Crimea, Shocks Viewers By Telling The Truth

Mainstream media correspondents for major US networks rarely, if ever, report from inside Crimea and certainly are nowhere near Russian-held territory in eastern Ukraine. However, this week NBC News chief international correspondent Keir Simmons went to Sevastopol, surrounded by a significant Russian military presence given it is home to the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet, and in a live segment admitted that it's not at all realistic Zelensky and Ukrainian forces can ever hope to take Crimea.

This is especially as the "the people there... view themselves as Russian." Simmons noted that "This is the closest that any US news crew has got to the Russian Black Sea Fleet in many many years." He explained that "Vladimir Putin will be determined to defend that port - to not have it take it away from him - he may well do pretty much anything to try to achieve that."

"It is a very, very dangerous standoff.. it's hard to see how you reach a negotiation over that. There's military absolutely everywhere, it is a military town," he continued, before saying...

"When for example Victoria Nuland talks about that at the very least we [the US] want Crimea to be demilitarized, I find myself standing there and wondering, how on earth does that happen?"

Ukrainian officials and pro-Kyiv media pundits are said to be outraged at the segment, given it repeatedly and bluntly referenced that Crimeans see themselves as Russians. Even a separate write-up filed days earlier from inside Crimea and posted to NBC's website included the following:
This is not Russia, according to Kyiv, its Western allies and the United Nations. It was annexed by the Kremlin in 2014, with the U.N. calling on Russia to return to its "internationally recognized borders." And following Moscow’s broader invasion launched a year ago, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed Ukraine will take Crimea back.
But Praskovya Baranova, 73, speaks Russian, feels Russian and lives here.
But it appears that the NBC correspondent, once he was on the ground in a place that few Western reporters ever venture, couldn't deny the plain truth he was seeing all around him.

David Sacks comments of the refreshingly truthful segment, "Not long ago, these were denounced as Putin talking points."

Sacks also says regarding NBC clearly conceding that Zelensky’s goal of retaking Crimea remains unrealistic and dangerous...
This is a huge admission because it means that Biden’s policy of "only the Ukrainians can decide" the objectives of the war makes no sense. We’re effectively delegating our foreign policy to Zelensky, who is pursuing objectives that we don’t agree with.

"At the same time that MSNBC is suddenly airing the truth about Crimea, its chief Ukraine pundit is lobbying for an all-out attack," Sacks also observes of the timing of the mid-week report.

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"It’s getting easier to see who are the real fanatics in this war," Sacks concluded.