San Francisco will allow noncitizens to vote in a local election, creating a new immigration flashpoint
San Francisco will allow noncitizens to vote in a local election, creating a new immigration flashpoint
- October 26, 2018
- Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies and poli sci, in the Los Angeles Times, Fresno Bee, Miami Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Sacramento Bee, Oct. 26, 2018
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"It will speak to that sort of sense that change is coming to the United States and that change is being done extralegally somehow," said Louis DeSipio, a professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine.
For the full story, please visit http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-san-francisco-election-immigration-20181026-story.html.
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