One of U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s opponents is calling on the state’s senior senator to take a position on whether she wants illegal immigrants to be able to vote.

“We now need to know whether … she will push for the extreme radical idea of allowing illegal immigrants to vote in our elections,” state Rep. Geoff Diehl said yesterday.

Warren’s office did not respond to questions from the Herald about Diehl’s questions. Warren has not commented publicly on this issue; on another immigration matter, she has called for the abolition of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

San Francisco just began allowing illegal immigrants with children to vote in school board elections.

Diehl, a Whitman Republican who hopes to be his party’s nominee to run against the Democrat, said he opposes letting people who aren’t citizens vote.

“One of the greatest rights we have in our democracy is our right to vote,” Diehl told the Herald. “You don’t want to have people acting on behalf of a country other than our own taking part in elections to determine who’s serving in office.”

Boston city councilors are considering allowing legal permanent residents who aren’t yet citizens to vote in local elections. Some councilors have brought up allowing illegal immigrants to vote, but that is not part of the current discussion.

Eva Millona, executive director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, said her organization does not support illegal immigrants having the right to vote.

“Voting is a privilege to citizenship,” Millona told the Herald. She said she advocates for legislation that would allow otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants to have a pathway toward United States citizenship.

Millona said she does support people with green cards being allowed to vote, as they’re on the path to citizenship already.

“They’re advocating for their citizen children,” Millona said.

Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors less immigration to the U.S., said her organization opposes allowing noncitizens to vote no matter their legal status.

“The power to help decide the future of a community is given to people who may be transient in a community and are not necessarily rooted in a community,” Vaughan told the Herald.

“They may vote for their interests as noncitizens and not the community as a whole,” Vaughan said, adding that sanctuary city-type laws that limit local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration enforcement could be one area where that would become evident.