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A Law Could Give Noncitizens in NYC the Vote. Not All Immigrants Support It.
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Some call it ‘un-American.’ Others say it's a ‘human right.’ Olivia Reingold reports on the fight over Local Law 11.
By Olivia Reingold
02.16.25 — U.S. Politics
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When Vito J. Fossella’s phone lit up with the news that the New York City Council was thinking about giving noncitizens the right to vote, he remembers saying out loud to himself: “Are they insane?”

“It was so nuts, I figured there was no way folks would support it,” he told me.

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Olivia Reingold
Olivia Reingold is a staff writer at The Free Press. She co-created and executive produced Matthew Yglesias’s podcast, Bad Takes. She got her start in public radio, regularly appearing on NPR for her reporting on indigenous communities in Montana. She previously produced podcasts at Politico, where she shaped conversations with world leaders like Jens Stoltenberg.
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