President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order soon that would ban people here illegally from being included in the 2020 census count of every person living in the United States.
This comes from an anonymous source.
The exact timing of the order was unclear.
The government census count helps in determining where taxpayer money is spent on buildings and it determines the number of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. If the order is successful, California would be kept from adding three seats and Virginia would not lose one.
Counting people here illegally gives those same people tremendous political power which the Democrats exploit to their full advantage.
Republicans close to Trump also wanted citizenship data so that conservative U.S. states could more easily exclude non-citizens when they redraw voting maps in the next round of redistricting, according to documents uncovered here during litigation on the citizenship question, Reuters reports.
Whether he has the power to do it, especially with this court, is the question.
Supreme Court precedent has interpreted the U.S. Constitution as requiring that U.S. House districts be based on the total population.
There will be litigation.
Trump tried to add a question to the census which would point to the number of illegal aliens in the country. It was shot down by the courts over timing.
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It just doesn’t count how many are elected to the HoR and build buildings.
It also determines how many people are in each State to allocate properly the amount of debt owed by each State.
Illegals aren’t allowed to participate in basic civil duties: voting and jury duty, for examples, and they’re not supposed to have representation in the HoR, as they are not full participants in civil society.
So, no. They should not be allowed to participate in the census.
An accurate head count of illegals should be made, however, there should be a different means to gather those numbers.
Illegals deserve nothing – except to be sent back to their own country. I have no problem with people coming to this country as long as they do it legally.
i agree, just like EVERY other country in the world!!!!!!!
Think about it. Allowing illegals to be counted is disgusting. Allowing illegals to come and stay in the US is also expensive. Yes, you, the reader. Liberals, progressive or conservative. It is your taxes that pay for illegal children to be in our schools. Using up resources for your and my children. Most illegals get free school lunches. There goes your property taxes to support those schools. They get free health care by showing up in our hospital emergency rooms – all charged back to the county government.
Many issues are tied to the census….public funding, Congressional representation etc. They should not be counted….they should be thrown out and made to use the proper channels that most other immigrants have used to live here.
So they’ll just lie on the census and say they’re legal. This is not a win for Trump.
Then they will have committed a crime….on top of the crime they already committed by being here illegally.
Just a clarification for you – Crossing the border illegally is a crime, but just being here unlawfully is not. It is a civil offense, not a criminal one.
The Leftists will just find an Obama shill judge to block it. And the illegal aliens will lie…if they participate. But this would be a symbolic victory.