Posted on 07/27/2020 10:05:40 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
An executive order signed last week by President Trump that would exclude undocumented immigrants from the decennial reapportionment process would cost the nation’s three largest states at least one seat in Congress, a new analysis finds.
It is unclear how the Trump administration plans to alter any final Census figures, or what datasets they would rely on to determine how many undocumented immigrants live in each state. Most legal scholars believe the order will not stand up in court.
But if it were to stand, it would likely mean Texas and Florida would each gain one fewer seat in the House than they are projected to do so, based on recent population trends. California, the home of more undocumented immigrants than any other state, would lose an additional seat as well.
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A study!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A study by whom? The libs that can’t screw in a light bulb?
Illegal aliens do not deserve representation, they should get deportation.
They’ll just redistrict so it’s a Republican seat that is lost.
And who would pick up those seats?
I believe the constitution indicates that “persons” be counted. When this gets to court, the liberal side will argue that using the wording of persons must include everyone regardless of immigration status.
...and? Illegal aliens are not entitled to representation in the US Congress.
As a native Floridian, I’m OK with that.
Wait hold up, according to the media that never lies..illegal aliens don’t vote, yet Trump’s order might cause house seats for the Dems, well why is that..is it because..illegal aliens DO vote, repeatedly, for Democrats..and that is why Dems want mail in voting SO badly..well gosh darn it Im stunned/sarc
But it would prevent American citizens from being disfranchised of their representation in Congress by illegals.
it’s not about who wins the seats, it’s about how many seats each state is allocated. California has 53 seats in congress b/c of its population proportional to the rest of the states. Discounting illegals would take one seat off of TX and CA.
but it doesn’t have anything to do with how the districts are drawn, meaning that in CA redrawing the maps would probably result in a republican losing a seat.
Trump order = following the law
Trump order would cost Texas, Florida, California House seats: study
Trump order would cost Texas, Florida, California House seats, CURRENTLY AND SAFELY HELD BY DEMOCRATS: study .... fixed it.
How can state gain fewer seats?
Florida and Texas still gain a seat.
A study so they can use this for headlines and in campaign ads to attack Trump in Texas and Florida...even though this very study says they will actually GAIN seats, just fewer than currently “projected” to gain...so no one even knows. It’s just a bogus news story to try to make it sound like to the people in Florida and Texas they are going to be having something taken away from them by Trump that they don’t even have and no one knows if they were ever going to get.
Only 1 seat per state? I would have thought more than that.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government desperate Democrats and RINOs home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a "third term" in office imo.
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me
"The power to tax involves the power to destroy, [...]” —Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819.
"The 16th Amendment effectively repealed the involuntary servitude aspect of the 13th Amendment imo, evidenced by unconstitutional federal taxes." —me
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"13th Amendment, Section 1:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude [emphasis added], except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
"16th Amendment:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"It’s politically correct, under the Democratic Party and its tyrant judges, to use your voting power to make your fellow citizens involuntary servants." —me
"The Democratic elite define a "pro-choice" democracy as being able to vote for your preferred master." —me
"The ill-conceived 17th Amendment not only effectively politically repealed the 3/4 state supermajority requirement of the Constitution’s Article V for ratification of proposed amendments to the Constitution imo, politically correct interpretations of the Constitution now prevailing under Democratic judicial tyranny, but also consider this. That amendment also effectively nullified Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers along with the Supreme Court’s clarification of Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes." —me
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes. Belonging to a political party means that you are a subject, not a member.” —me
"Patriots need to support PDJT in demanding that Congress moves "April 15" tax day to the day before election day." —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Do not count illegal aliens, let the chips fall where they may.
... and then deport every last one!
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