Posted on 01/03/2024 4:38:03 PM PST by davikkm
A call for change in the way congressional districts are drawn has emerged, emphasizing a focus on the population of U.S. citizens alone. The proposition suggests that the Census should specifically count U.S. citizens for the apportionment of representation, contending that only U.S. citizens should be directly represented in the U.S. Congress.
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This needs to be enforced immediately.
This is the purpose of open borders...electoral fraud.
Did you wonder why the establishment fought so hard to keep the citizenship question off of the Census? They want to count non-citizens for apportionment, giving states with high legal and illegal immigration more power in the electoral college.
Yes
Long overdue
United States v. Wong Kim Ark was a bad decision that should have been remedied by legislation or an amendment immediately
It is just stupid beyond words.
I would only expand the idea to include LEGAL residents as well as citizens, as most LEGAL residents are long term, not temporary residents, and unlike illegals have a legal right to reside in the U.S.. They too should be counted along with citizens, in my view.
Sorry. Only US Citizens for apportionment. Want the privilege of representation? Become a US Citizen. Proud day for my mother.
So how are you affilliated with this cwr site, that you promote by posting articles on FR, redirecting people to that site?
Too bad the Uniparty simply does the bidding of the US Chamber of Commerce, and Globalist Donors......
But they don’t get to vote. The end result is that you’d give increased representation to citizens in states with more resident aliens. Why should those citizens get a greater say in government just because they have more resident alien neighbors?
“But they don’t get to vote. The end result is that you’d give increased representation to citizens in states with more resident aliens. Why should those citizens get a greater say in government just because they have more resident alien neighbors?”
They are peole who are legal residdents and they come under the laws of their cities, their states and the nation, which the elected represetatives thereof represent.
But they can’t vote. So you’re giving a greater vote to their citizen neighbors just because they happen to live near resident aliens.
“But they can’t vote. So you’re giving a greater vote to their citizen neighbors just because they happen to live near resident aliens.”
It is not about “voting”. Its about apportioning the seats in Congress.
What the Constition says exactly is:
“Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.”
The whole number of persons in each state. In that, to me, it is no stretch of interpretation that they intended/meant the persons legally here.
Do you realize that the Biden administration has made the millions who have crossed the border seeking asylum to be in the United States legally? They are given papers telling them that they must appear before a judge at some unknown time in the future but in the meantime they have papers allowing them to stay in the USA. It is infuriating.
Those actions can legally be revoked by another President as easily as Biden invoked them.
It’s equivalent to giving an increased vote to citizens who live in those states. If it takes, say, 100,000 people to comprise a Congressional district, then citizens who live in a district with 10,000 resident aliens would get a greater say in government than citizens who live in a district with no resident aliens. (They have 1/90,000 of a vote in Congress, which is greater than the 1/100,000 of a vote in Congress that the others get.)
In terms of apportionment for Federal spending, it might make sense. But not for allocating Congressional districts.
Congressional districts should be comprised of no more that 8 sides, with uneven natural boundaries such as rivers counting as a side.
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