More accurately, illegal immigration is the THEFT of political power by the cities and states that encourage it, from everyone else.
So we’re probably looking at 30-40 Democratic House seats apportioned to Democratic states solely due to harboring illegal immigrants.
This is a causus belli level offense against the rest of the country.
Question or no question, we want the illegals to run and hide when the census shows up. So we keep this issue front and center to keep them scared.