{"id":524754,"date":"2021-05-19T07:50:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T11:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=524754"},"modified":"2021-05-19T07:50:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T11:50:56","slug":"ny-dem-mayoral-candidate-andrew-yang-give-non-citizens-the-right-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-dem-mayoral-candidate-andrew-yang-give-non-citizens-the-right-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Dem Mayoral Candidate Andrew Yang: Give Non-Citizens The Right To Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-dem-mayoral-candidate-andrew-yang-give-non-citizens-the-right-to-vote%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=524754&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1317471028.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pscp.tv\/w\/1dRJZNLVwazJB\">speaking in Battery Park<\/a> in New York City, Democratic mayoral candidate Andrew Yang stated that he wanted to give non-citizens the right to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Yang, who was joined by City Council Member Carlos Menchaca, had already stated that the first thing he wanted to do was give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote, when he stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"25\">\n<p><em>The second thing we should do is expand the franchise to non-citizens, lawful permanent residents. Now we\u2019re here in part inside the Statue of Liberty because New York City is a city of immigrants. I myself am the son of immigrants. And immigrants form the core of so many of our neighborhoods and communities. There are approximately 6220,000 lawful permanent residents, you probably think of them as green card holders, who are responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue. Their kids go to our schools. They supply many of the jobs that we rely upon. They should have a say in the future of their city. too.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We can enable green card holders, lawful permanent residents, to be able to vote. And I\u2019m so thrilled that Carlos and Margaret Chin, who is another city council member who\u2019s endorsed me, have put forward \u201cOur City, Our Vote\u201d bill that would enable this to happen. \u2026 We should enable lawful permanent residents to vote. This is their city, too. So young people, non-citizens, we have to invest in the mechanics of our democracy at a higher level.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prior to his remarks about enabling non-citizens to vote, Yang stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"26\">\n<p><em>Now how can we continue to invest in our democracy to make it better here in New York City.\u00a0 I think we should enable young people to vote starting at age 16. Now let\u2019s think about why this might be. Right now, older voters vote at very, very high levels, which is great but then policy tends to skew in that direction because politicians follow the votes. And so many young people don\u2019t feel like their voices are being heard and that has a self-reinforcing dynamic where if a young person thinks, \u201cOh, my voice won\u2019t be heard,\u201d then they get discouraged and they aren\u2019t as activated in our democracy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now if you were to have 16 year olds vote, what would that do? That would transform every high school in New York City in a hotbed of democracy because instead of being hypothetical, all of a sudden every junior and senior would actually be able to vote in city elections. Instead of being hypothetical, their teachers could talk to them about the real issues, and what the candidates stand for, and have them vote then and there. And studies have shown that the earlier you are the first time you cast a vote, the more likely you are to become a voter throughout your lifetime. So if we invest in young people at age 16 and 17, then we are going to be strengthening our democracy in a very very significant way. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urmc.rochester.edu\/encyclopedia\/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=1&#038;ContentID=3051\">University of Rochester Medical Center<\/a> has noted of the development of teens\u2019 brains:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p><em>The rational part of a teen\u2019s brain isn\u2019t fully developed and won\u2019t be until age 25 or so.\u00a0In fact, recent research has found that\u00a0adult and teen brains work differently. Adults think with the prefrontal cortex, the brain\u2019s rational part. This is the part of the brain that responds to situations with good judgment and an awareness of long-term consequences. Teens process information with the amygdala. This is the emotional part.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In teens\u2019 brains, the connections between the emotional part of the brain and the decision-making center are still developing\u2014and not always at the same rate. That\u2019s why when teens\u00a0have\u00a0overwhelming emotional input, they can\u2019t explain later what they were thinking. They weren\u2019t thinking as much as they were feeling.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2021\/05\/18\/andrew-yang-calls-for-voting-rights-for-teenagers-and-non-citizen\">NY1<\/a>\u00a0pointed out that \u201cYang himself has never voted in a New York City election, despite having lived here for 25 years. He missed some federal and state elections as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, speaking in Battery Park in New York City, Democratic mayoral candidate Andrew Yang stated that he wanted to give non-citizens the right to vote.Yang, who was joined by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278523,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1317471028.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"NY Dem Mayoral Candidate Andrew Yang: Give Non-Citizens The Right To Vote","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1317471028.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"NY Dem Mayoral Candidate Andrew Yang: Give Non-Citizens The Right To Vote","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}