It also requires having valid travel documents, often denied to people who are being oppressed by their government.
So that would make their traveling across a border to seek asylum illegal too.
Except it doesn’t.
There is absolutely no requirement or compulsion under the international treaties to which the US is a signatory that someone fleeing oppression must seek asylum in the first safe place they arrive.
Do I need to repeat that 9 more times?
“Those cities now allow all residents over age 18 to vote in city elections, regardless of citizenship status. Noncitizen voting in federal elections remains illegal nationwide.”
Storm in a tea cup.