Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the Bay Area News Group and East Bay Times. He edits the Hills weekly Alameda Journal, Berkeley Voice, El Cerrito Journal, Montclarion and Piedmonter newspapers; Central Costa County's weekly Concord Transcript and Walnut Creek Journal papers; and East Contra Costa's weekly East County News.
The lines between American citizens and noncitizen immigrants who live here, legally or not, may become even more blurred this fall than they are today.The newest move in this direction comes in Santa Ana, the county seat of California’s once reliably Republican Orange County, now mostly a “purple” area where hot races for Congress in recent years have been decided by thin margins.
It was quickly struck down by a trial judge but later reinstated by the state Court of Appeal. The U.S. Constitution does not ban such local expansion of voting rights, blurring distinctions between citizens and those who are not, but allows only citizen voting in federal elections. California state elections are similarly confined to U.S. citizens.
Illegal immigrants even have the right to practice law here under a bill signed in 2015 by ex-Gov. Jerry Brown. They cannot serve on juries, though. Mere days after Adams allowed virtually universal voting in New York, California Gov. Gavin Newsom expanded Medi-Cal health insurance for the poor to cover undocumented immigrants between ages 26 and 50.
Some in Santa Ana questioned whether the “taxpayers and parents” language in the current noncitizen voting proposal would bias voters toward approving it, though. Conservative organizations challenged that wording in court and got a county judge to order the language made more neutral.
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