I'm not sure this came out quite the way this young lady was expecting it to.

A DACA recipient had this to say to Minnesota lawmakers last week: "We are voting."

"We are voting. Our people are voting. If you don't pass this bill, people are going to vote you all out," Angelico Bello, who said she is a DACA recipient, told the House Transportation Committee Jan. 10.

DACA stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which is an Obama-era rule that protects its recipients from deportation for renewable, two-year periods.

Just in case it were unclear:

Deferred action is an exercise of prosecutorial discretion to defer removal action against an individual for a certain period of time. Deferred action does not provide lawful status.

You gotta be lawful to vote, young lady!

You can picture all the immigration activists in the audience when she accidentally let the truth slip:

Meanwhile, the whole debate in the legislature played out rather predictably:

Republicans on the committee expressed concern that the "driver's licenses for all" legislation would make it easier for people to vote illegally. They proposed an amendment that would have required licenses issued to illegal immigrants to include a "not voting" label. The amendment was rejected.

Democrats argued that there are already "lifelong, permanent immigration consequences" for immigrants who vote illegally.

Seems like a "not voting" label isn't that much to ask. It's a bit weird that they'd shoot it down, don't you think?

Maybe Democrats know something about voter demographics the rest of us don't.