{"id":20859,"date":"2010-10-16T16:05:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T20:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20859"},"modified":"2010-10-16T16:05:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T20:05:02","slug":"poor-immigrants-deported-for-voting-illegally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20859","title":{"rendered":"Poor immigrants deported for voting illegally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor little ignorant Joseph E. Joseph was winding his way home from work one day in 1992 and decided it was time for him to vote so he registered and voted every year since. Problem is that Joe E. Joe was a registered alien and not a citizen, so now the government wants to deport him. Of course, he claims ignorance of the law and the lawyers (and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/17\/nyregion\/17voting.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\">New York Times<\/a>) are on his side (what a surprise); <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt really annoys me that they\u2019re just trying to do their civic duty for no pecuniary gain at all, yet they wind up in removal proceedings,\u201d said Jeffrey N. Brauwerman, a lawyer in Coral Gables, Fla., and a former immigration judge, who has represented four immigrants that the government tried to deport for registering to vote. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What really annoys me it that everyone thinks that they can ignore laws that they don&#8217;t think relate to them with no expectation of any consequences. The heritage Foundation says that voting by ineligible residents may more widespread than we think;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a 2008 report, Hans A. von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the foundation, wrote: \u201cLax enforcement of election laws permits individuals who have not entered the American social compact or made a commitment to the U.S. Constitution, U.S. laws, and the U.S. cultural and political heritage to participate in elections and potentially change the outcome of closely contested races.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder how many Americans vote in foreign elections and what the consequences of that might be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor little ignorant Joseph E. Joseph was winding his way home from work one day in &hellip; <a title=\"Poor immigrants deported for voting illegally\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20859\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poor immigrants deported for voting illegally<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illegal-immigrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}