By Illinois Review
In a deliberate and calculated move, Illinois Democrats are taking advantage of their supermajority grip in the legislature and have introduced legislation to create and expand the rights of illegal aliens who reside in Illinois.
The Noncitizens Rights Act, which was introduced last Tuesday by Democrat State Sen. Rachel Ventura, is loaded with legislative language that protects illegal immigrants, including restricting law enforcement or an agency from inquiring about a person’s immigration status if they are working with a government agency and would require law enforcement and government offices to post signs that a person will not be asked about their immigration status, among other things.
The Act also “sets forth requirements for the removal of files maintained by agencies when such files contain information regarding citizenship or immigration status.”
On Tuesday, the very same day this Act was introduced, Illinois State Sen. Celina Villanueva, D, introduced legislation to allow illegal aliens to register to vote in Illinois school board elections.
The proposed legislation states,
“The State Board of Education shall create a voter registration affidavit that shall be the exclusive means by which a noncitizen of the United States may register to vote in school board elections.”
The legislation goes on to cite Article III Section 1 of the Illinois Constitution that school board races are considered “non-State elections” and that illegal aliens could vote in school board races because there is not a specific citizenship requirement for voting in such an election.
It’s not a coincidence that on the day Ventura and Villanueva introduced their bills, Gov. JB Pritzker, D, went on the attack during a press conference, calling Illinois-based conservative grassroots organizations that recruit and support local school board candidates’ “racists” and “anti-LGBTQ” among other things.
“There are organizations that are anti-LGBTQ, that are racist, that are anti-Muslim, that are supporting candidates for these local [school] boards, and they’re trying to take over at a local level and build up candidates at the local level that they can then run for the state legislature.”
In August, and in a surprise move, Pritzker backed Democratic State Rep. Lisa Hernandez, D-Cicero, a member of the Latinx Caucus in Springfield and the first latina to chair the Democratic Party of Illinois over Democrat US Rep. Robin Kelly, IL-2, the first black woman to chair the Democratic Party of Illinois and the incumbent – reiterating Pritzker and the Democratic Party of Illinois’ focus on the Hispanic community, and now illegal immigrants.
And with Democrats controlling every statewide office, the Illinois House and the Illinois Senate – both by a supermajority, there’s nothing that Republicans can do to stall or stop the Democrats’ agenda of normalizing illegal immigration and solidifying their rights by legislation.
Elections have consequences – and we’re seeing it play out in real time.
