The Trump Administration is preparing to end the practice of counting noncitizens in the U.S. Census.
Currently, non-citizens are added to the census and those numbers are then used to apportion political representation to the states in the House of Representatives. So, the more illegals you have, the bigger your delegation is in Congress.
But this is a joke. It means lawbreaking, illegals are de facto legalized as part of our electoral system. Trump wants this ended.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller recently said that the White House intends to “clean up the census and make sure that illegal aliens are not counted.”
Real Clear Wire’s Benjamin Weingarten pointed out that if Trump is successful, it will have a major impact on Washington.
Some immigration researchers project that including noncitizens in the census count disproportionately benefits Democratic states with large illegal alien populations. A recent study counters that, based on 2020 census figures, there would have been a negligible shift to the political map had the U.S. government excluded noncitizens from that count. But looking backward, those researchers found, red states would have benefited under the administration’s desired census counting shift. Had authorities excluded such migrants from the 2010 census, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Ohio and North Carolina all would have gained one seat in the House, while California would have lost three seats, and Texas and Florida would have each lost one seat – with the total number of Electoral College votes allotted each state changing accordingly.
Trump wanted to do this in his first term, but was not given enough time to get to it and he faced left-wing lawfare to stop his progress. He posted a memorandum in 2020 to explain the plan to exclude non-citizens.
However, the truth is, we have counted non-citizens since 1790. So, critics of the plan say it breaches long-standing practices.
Supporters of the idea say that with the country inundated by tens of millions of illegals, counting non-citizens dilutes the representation of American citizens while incentivizing localities to promote illegal immigration.
It is likely that the issue will have to be settled by the Supreme Court.
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