Proof that Non-citizens Vote - and Vote Democratic
"One bright morning in October, 1880, following the earliest blizzard in Minnesota history, James J. Hill, general manager of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway, lowered the top of his mahogany desk, clamped his big-brimmed Western-style homburg on his head, and biskly walked the short distance to the Federal courthouse. There, before James O'Brien, deputy clerk of the court, he raised his right hand and, forsaking all previous allegiances, becamse a citizen of the United States of America. Since he had arrived in St. Paul almost a quarter of a century before, he had played a full role in poitics as a busy man of affairs could manage, marching proudly in the torchlight parades of the St. Paul Democratic party organization, raising funds for its candidates and faithfully voting in every election. The event in the courthouse marked the end of an era for Hill, an era in which he had moved swiftly from one enterprise to to another at a speed which mere red tape could not match. Now he was a rich man, managing of of the newest and most promising railroads in the nation. Tidying up his citizen status was only one example of the deference which in the future he would be obliged to pay to the formalities of the law and to the incresingly bureaucratic world in which he found himself.
_James J Hill and the Openening of the Northwest_ by Albro Martin; New York: Oxford University Press, 1976_ (page 207).
_James J Hill and the Openening of the Northwest_ by Albro Martin; New York: Oxford University Press, 1976_ (page 207).
The first to be excluded were Asians. In his classic, stirring, and timeless dissent from Plessy v. Ferguson, Justice John Marshall Harlan pointed out that Asians are prevented by law from becoming citizens, but not from riding in railroad cars with Whites. On the other hand, a Negro war veteran could not; and new immigrants from Africa could become citizens - but not ride in railroad carriages with Whites.
Twenty years later, in US v. Baghat Singh Thind the government denied citizenship to man from India who had served in the American army in World War I. He argued that he was an Aryan. The Supreme Court said (in effect), "You speak an Aryan language, dude, but you are not White and so you are not a citizen."
The problem you cite is rooted in welfare, not immigration. Even that is complicated. Ayn Rand used Medicaid and just about everyone here went to a public school, even to state universities. Is there anyone here who does not use the Postal Service? In mapping out ethics, there are degrees of wrongitude.
(And BTW, do not say "whom" unless you can say "him.")