Green card holder sentenced for imaginary voter fraud in Texas

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Jazz Shaw:

That imaginary voter fraud problem we are consistently assured we don’t have appears to be about as persistent as a late case stage of herpes. This week’s story however, involves more than allegations, reports or rumors. In the Lone Star State authorities have uncovered that rarest of beasts, an actual conviction and sentencing of an immigrant for the crime of voting while not being a citizen. A 37-year-old green card holder has been sentenced to nearly a decade in prison for voting in the 2012 and 2014 elections. (Washington Post)

A permanent U.S. resident living in Texas has been sentenced to eight years in prison for illegally voting, a punishment that will probably result in the woman’s deportation after she completes her sentence.

On Wednesday, a Tarrant County, Tex., jury convicted 37-year-old Rosa Maria Ortega on two felony charges of illegal voting, for casting a ballot as a noncitizen in 2012 and 2014. Ortega is a green-card holder who was brought to the United States from Mexico when she was an infant, her attorney said.

The decision was hailed by some — including Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), who prosecuted the case — as a sign the state intends to crack down on voter fraud.

As with virtually all of these cases, reporters and their liberal supporters are quick to invoke the, “yeah, but…” defense. This was all, we are assured, a tragic mistake. Ms. Ortega simply didn’t know any better. She was an unwitting dupe of the system which somehow fails to inform new arrivals (even if they have been living here for more than three and a half decades) that you have to complete your naturalization process before you can vote. And even if that’s not the case, as we are repeatedly assured, this is just one person in a vast nation and not representative of any sort of trend. Let’s examine both of those arguments.

First of all, perhaps it’s true that the defendant was somehow unaware that she was not supposed to be voting as a green card holder. Anything’s possible I suppose. Perhaps she doesn’t follow the news very much or possibly she struggles with English as a second language. That might explain it were it not for one minor detail which the Washington Post did manage to cover in the report. After having voted illegally in 2012 and 2014, Ms. Ortega registered to vote in a different county and checked the box on the form indicating that she was not a citizen. Her application was denied and she then subsequently submitted a new application stating that she was a citizen. I don’t think we really need to call in Perry Mason on this one. That indicates a clear awareness of what went wrong in her first attempt and a deliberate action to correct the error and falsely claim voter status on the second.

Now let us once again touch briefly on this argument that these are exceptionally rare instances when they are uncovered.

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Silly liberals cant get over the fact that people have selected trump as president they all need to just go home and soak their heads in a solution made for snowflakes

After having voted illegally in 2012 and 2014, Ms. Ortega registered to vote in a different county and checked the box on the form indicating that she was not a citizen. Her application was denied and she then subsequently submitted a new application stating that she was a citizen.

I probably helped her get her nerve up when, then, President Obama was interviewed and said IF you vote, you ARE a citizen.
Was he just mangling English, as he often does?
Or was it a “dog whistle” to illegals that he’d never come after them, and neither would Hillary?
I know people who interpreted it as the later and tried to vote.

Well, at least they caught the only illegal immigrant in America that ever illegally voted. Whew.

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@July 4th American: And these are only the ones that were caught!

@Randy:

Tip of the iceberg…..

I would love to see how many illegals voted in CA in the 2016 general election.

If enforced deportations as well as self deportations continue over the next few years, it should be interesting to see the house results in the mid terms as well as the 2020 general.

Illegal immigration dropped 27 percent in January: Reports

Illegal immigration across the southwest border plummeted in January, compared to December, as the flow of both illegal immigrant families and children traveling alone dried up, according to numbers released by Customs and Border Protection on Monday.

The numbers are still high compared to past years — indeed, it’s the worst January in records dating back to 2012.

But total apprehensions of migrants trying to sneak across the border fell 27 percent on a month-to-month basis, to 31,575. And the number of inadmissible migrants who showed up at the southwest’s ports of entry fell 28 percent, to 10,899.

Apprehensions are deemed an indicator of the overall flow: The more people caught, the more are believed to be getting through.

The flow always decreases in the deep months of the winter, before picking up again in the spring. Last year Border Patrol apprehensions dropped 36 percent from December to January.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com …

Maybe it is time for real voting laws with photo government IDs Maybe this Justice Department will support that!