christopher arps, thank you for being here. michael thank you. from facebook and twitter why not? they pay for local roads, schools, police, et cetera. tax aches without representation is the alternative. i just raised that with my guest. that s what the councilman made last night, he wanted to make sure they re in the system, they re documented as opposed to undocumented. they re working, paying taxes. still for me, i go back in the room in the federal courthouse where i m speaking to naturalized citizens who have gone through the full process, and in my opinion, we re now diluting that approach. that s my beef with it. i don t think it s fair to the people who have gone through the whole process and now are given the franchise to vote. i think it waters it down. still to come, six states across the central u.s. are just beginning to assess the extent of the damage from last night s
nats a large part of your person, right? it is. this past 2020 election had a lot of intention in it. people were worried about voter integrity and cheating and all of that. and i think the wrong message that we want to send is to allow noncitizens to vote in our election and create more distrust in the electoral process. let me, though, at least play devil s advocate. the councilman last night said these folks are not illegal. they re not undocumented, i guess, they re not illegal. they re somehow in the system with green cards. but most importantly, they re paying taxes. if they re paying taxes isn t this a taxation without representation kind of thing? first of all, michael, you or i can t go to mexico or canada or any other country and establish permanent residency and vote in their election. look, if you want to become a citizen and you want to vote,
january 2023. last night on cnn, i spoke to the city councilman who proposed the legislation, edonis rodriguez, he told me this. everyone allowed to voshgts after 1896. so what happened? why did we start changing this law? why most in this nation saying there s something wrong, and then some obstacle for new immigrants coming who were irish, who were italian, who were jewish, who were latino, who were black. what we re sighing let s revise it. joining me christopher aarps, he s head of citizens for voting. thank you for being here. you heard the councilman, that historically, he says this is the way it was in this country. essentially he argues we re going back to our roots. what do you say to that? you know, michael, this is a