#Letters to the Editor — Nov. 29, 2021

The Issue: The City Council’s drive to let green-card and work-visa holders vote in NYC elections.

It’s bad enough that President Joe Biden wants to compensate illegal immigrants who were separated at the border, but now the City Council wants to allow non-citizens to vote (“Green card voters,” Nov. 24).

What kind of Alice in Wonderland country am I living in?

Paul L. Newman

Merion Station, Pa.

In just one month, New York City’s radical-Democratic City Council members removed Thomas Jefferson’s statue from City Hall and are about to grant noncitizens the right to cancel out the votes of American citizens.

What will they do for their next trick? Ban possession of copies of the Constitution within city limits?

Nick McNulty

Windham, NH

For Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez (D-Manhattan) to suggest that green-card holders and recipients of deferred immigration action have the right to vote alongside legal American citizens is to make a mockery of our voting rights and policies.

Rodriguez and his City Council cohorts have a very twisted and condescendingly arrogant grasp on voting statutes and limitations. That these noncitizens would only vote in elections that concern the mayor, comptroller and city council is of no consequence.

The council members care nothing about the ties that bind a community together. They care only about what they deem as arbitrary barriers to expanding their brand of democracy and an agenda for globalization.

Theresa Caso-O’Brien

Melville

Approving voting rights for thousands of noncitizens in New York City is moving our nation in the wrong direction.

Even though green-card holders will only be able to vote in local elections, it is chipping away at our Constitution. And after that gets underway, the push for illegal immigrants to vote in our national elections will probably be next.

This is a slap in the face to all of those who came to this country legally and are now naturalized citizens. What about felons who are still disenfranchised voters, even after serving time in prison?

Most important, this is Democratic plan to keep themselves in power permanently.

JoAnn Lee Frank

Clearwater, Fla.

The Issue: The removal of a Jefferson statue from City Hall because the former president owned slaves.

Taking down Thomas Jefferson’s statue in City Hall is like what they do in Communist China: change or bury history (“Thomas evicted from City Hall,” Nov. 23).

Ed Houlihan

Ridgewood, NJ

The removal of inanimate objects in order to produce deeper thought and ideas is probably the dumbest idea ever to facilitate intellectual conversations.

If you are that seriously wounded by a statue, then 1) you need to grow up, and 2) you need to grow up.

Jefferson and others targeted for removal were great men who established, polished and forged forward to give what we had today. The mob trying to hide the facts will not change history.

Doc Ludemann

Bridgeport, Conn.

Instead of removing statues, Mayor de Blasio should remove the crime, the homelessness, the mental patients. Cut regulations by 80 percent, cut taxes by 50 percent, cut bureaucracy by 60 percent and demand that our children can read and write.

Anton Loew

Manhattan

What should have been removed from City Hall was not the statue of Jefferson but de Blasio.

Robert Solomon

Boynton Beach, Fla.