Letting noncitizens vote 'suffocates liberty' by making governments larger, Andrew McCarthy says

Allowing noncitizens to vote in local U.S. elections "suffocates liberty" by making governments larger and more powerful, National Review Institute senior fellow Andrew McCarthy told Fox News Digital.

"Progressive Democrats push for noncitizen voting because they would like to solidify a permanent Democratic partisan majority," McCarthy, the former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said. "They reason that if they champion voting rights for aliens, then aliens will support them.

"Democrats are the party of government. If aliens are permitted to vote and do so in support of Democrats, the government will become larger, more intrusive and more redistributionist," McCarthy added. "The bigger government becomes, the more it suffocates liberty and crowds out private investment — meaning funds would increasingly be allocated based on political favor rather than economic efficiency. That is how you kill a prosperous society."