The Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) faction of the Los Angeles City Council is offering up another middle finger to the citizenry of Los Angeles, led by Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez (CD-13), who is proposing a plan to let illegal aliens vote in city elections.
This is our shocked face.
And so it begins…
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LA City Councilmen Hugo Soto Martinez & Ysabel Jurado have unveiled a plan to let "noncitizens" VOTE in LA elections
There are 1.5 million noncitizens in LA
15% of their entire population pic.twitter.com/LddRPRpiXh
City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez, who represents an Echo Park-to-Hollywood district, released a proposal Wednesday to ask voters in the Nov. 3 election to give the council the power to let noncitizens vote in city elections, including those for mayor and City Council, as well as for Los Angeles Board of Education seats.
The proposal faces multiple hurdles that could derail it. The council must vote to put the measure on the ballot and after that, voters would have to approve it. If passed by voters, the council would still need to pass an ordinance revising city election law.
Soto-Martínez, whose parents were at one time undocumented, said his proposal would help L.A.’s immigrant communities at a time when they are under assault from the Trump administration, which has launched immigration raids around the country and sought to revoke birthright citizenship.
“After my parents immigrated here from Mexico, they worked hard, paid taxes, and raised their kids in our public schools, but for decades they had no say in the decisions shaping their community until they became citizens,” Soto-Martínez said.
The proposal, which was also signed by Councilmember Ysabel Jurado, now heads to the council’s rules committee for consideration.
We have lost the plot in this nation on what it means to be a citizen and what rights and privileges are entailed. For decades, Los Angeles has had its own cottage industries built around catering to illegals, while creating burden on top of burden for the actual citizens of the city, especially their small businesses.
Ira Mehlman, spokesperson for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, said his organization would fight such a proposal, arguing that it “undermines the whole concept of citizenship, and what it means to be a member of American society.”
Mehlman, whose group favors stronger enforcement of federal immigration laws, said L.A. should not allow people to “just show up from the outside and have an equal voice in how the city is run.”
“That is a privilege and a right that is reserved for citizens,” he said.
So, if this proposal manages to pass, it would be the ultimate "FU" to America and Americans. With this DSA bunch, that's a feature, not a bug.
Soto-Martinez made his bones by being a Democrat Socialist community organizer who unseated the moderate Democrat and longtime city councilman Mitch O'Farrell for the CD-13 seat. I warned years ago, when I still lived in Los Angeles, that the Democrat Socialists planned to take over the city council. With the 2022 election of Soto-Martinez and his counterparts, Eunisses Hernandez (CD-01), Ysabel Murtado (CD-14), along with the egregious Nithya Raman (CD-4 — who is also running for L.A. mayor), that takeover is almost complete.
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Dylan Kendall is running against Soto-Martínez for his council seat, and is one step to his right, which is not saying much. Kendall's platform involves increased law enforcement (shocker), and she actually opposes this bill. However, her reason for opposition is that she doesn't want to open these non-citizens up to immigration enforcement.
You cannot make this stuff up.
[Kendall] said she fears it would lead to the creation of “a new government list of noncitizen voters at the very moment Trump’s ICE brigade is looking for more ways to track, target, and kidnap undocumented people.”
“What he’s proposing now sounds less like protecting our community and more like asking people to sign onto a public list that exposes undocumented neighbors to greater danger,” she said.
New York City tried last year to pass a similar law, and it was struck down by the state supreme court. In California, this is not the first time this has been tried, and probably won't be the last.
Noncitizens secured the right to vote in school board races in San Francisco. Oakland voters approved a similar move in 2022 but it has not yet been implemented, according to Ballotpedia.
Meanwhile, voters in Santa Ana rejected a proposal in 2024 to let noncitizens cast ballots in that city’s local races.
The DSA faction and its adherents and allies are working hard to sell this proposal, as candidates and electeds try to garner votes headed into the June 2 primary.
Deputy Atty. Gen. Marissa Roy, who is looking to unseat City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto, told the Democratic Socialists of America last year that she supports the effort to give noncitizens the vote in L.A. local elections.
“While the City Council or County Board of Supervisors would need to pass this legislation, as City Attorney, I would make sure that immigrants voting in local elections are protected from the federal government,” she wrote on her DSA candidate questionnaire, a copy of which was reviewed by The Times.
The idea also has the backing of Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, who is seeking reelection on the Eastside.
In the race to replace Councilmember Curren Price in South L.A, at least three candidates — community organizer Estuardo Mazariegos, council aide Jose Ugarte and education nonprofit director Elmer Roldan — favor the idea.
If Angeleans don't elect Spencer Pratt for mayor, with this city council running the show, L.A. will be completely cooked.
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