Noncitizens in Santa Ana Are Organizing for the Right to Vote in Local Elections
When he was in second grade, Alexis Jaimes asked his undocumented parents who they would be voting for in the upcoming elections. “They said they couldn’t, and I found that so strange,” Jaimes, now a 30-year-old teacher, told Truthout. “Why can’t they, but others could?” On election day, Santa Ana, a city in the greater Los Angeles region, will be voting on whether its 24 percent…