Your opinion is duly noted
Why you bracketed some good facts with it is silly.
But no problem, I still respect your post Dave.
This has nothing to do with who votes and does not vote in elections. This issue is whether or not to include illegal aliens in the apportionment for the US House of Representatives. To date, the US has always included illegal aliens in the apportionment for the US House of Representatives.
The first census in which it was noticed that illegal aliens were skewing the apportionment was in 1980 and it was minor but noticeable.
I suspected the reason Trump wanted the citizenship question on the census was to exclude illegal aliens in the apportionment, but as you know, the Supreme Court ruled against him.
I read just several weeks ago that Trump has asked the government using other stats to determine the illegal population in every state.
This will obviously go to the Supreme Court and I anticipate that Trump will lose this one, too.
But at least he's trying.
And no it's not silly and no, it has nothing to do with allowing or not allowing illegal aliens to vote as many people incorrectly assumed due to the headline.
Illegal aliens can't vote in federal elections - there is no question about it and the issue is black and white. There are some local jurisdictions that allow illegal aliens or any non citizen to vote in local elections and the Constitution is silent on it, so it is allowed. Those cities must keep two sets of registrations - one for federal and state elections and one for local elections.
This issue has nothing to do with non citizens voting in federal elections but whether non citizens should be included when determining how many reps each state gets in Congress.