The city of Boston is considering allowing legal immigrants (without US citizenship) to vote in City elections. This is huge, because Boston has 190,000 legal immigrants amounting to 28.5% of the population, and they pay $116 million in city and state taxes. Assuming half of it is city taxes, it would amount to $58 million. The city budget is $3.29 billion. That would be 2.3% of the taxes paid by 28.5% of the population. The Boston City Council could be letting itself in for some trouble. That’s a huge voting bloc, and I imagine they could push several council members into the unemployment line.
Immigrants with legal status are not eligible to vote in city elections because they are prohibited by state law, according to an order filed by Campbell “to explore voting rights for immigrants with legal…
