•   "Today, about one in fourteen people in the US are noncitizen immigrants (lawful permanent residents, unauthorized immigrants, or legal residents on temporary visas). They live in virtually every state, city, suburb, and town. They’re teachers and students, physicians and nurses, musicians and construction workers. They pay taxes, raise their families, send their kids to schools, and make countless social and cultural contributions every day. But while they’re denizens of the same communities and neighborhoods as voters, non-citizens are barred from entering the polling booth. While they live under the same policies set by legislative bodies, they have little ability to influence and select the representatives making those laws. This exclusion is a fundamental violation of their self-determination — an affront to one of their most basic, inviolable rights. It turns millions of people into political subordinates, undermining the vitality of democratic life and making a mockery of American democracy. All US residents should be able to vote — whether they come from Delaware or the Dominican Republic." Source: Jacobin 

•   "One of the most common objections to non-citizen voting is that this violates the tradition in that the right to vote has always been confined to citizens. The fact is that the assertion about history simply isn't true. Our history is much more complex, and there have been periods in places when non-citizen voting was common." Source: Alex Keyssar (Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School)