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Originally Posted by LAPhil
I just read the bill and it specifically exempts persons who are not lawfully present immigrants or citizens of the United
States as potential trial jurors. I don't have a big problem with non-citizens serving a jury, as long as they're legal residents.
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It's both a big problem and a can of worms, Phil.
The countries many of those people come from are corrupt and lacking in democratic values, even whole different thought processes are involved.
Are you willing to have a jury comprised of newly arrived people from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Saharan African countries sit in judgement of the surviving Boston bombing suspect, a legal immigrant from Chechnya?
How about cases in which the Mexican government has an interest in, want a bunch of Mexican nationals weighing in on the outcome?
Juries are selected from voter registration lists, so when they can sit on juries, the slippery slope will be "why not let them vote as well?"
So the value of American citizenship is diminished with every tiny little bite.
The people who come up with this crap hate our country and are seeking to change it into something else by turning us into "citizens of the world".
Think about it.
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