Posted on 06/10/2025 3:22:13 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Immigrants don’t need to have the right to vote to affect elections in the United States — simply by being here, they can tip the scales.
The apportionment of House seats and votes in the Electoral College among the states is based on total population — not citizenship or legal status.
The Census Bureau is clear that naturalized citizens, as well as non-citizens such as green card holders, foreign students, guestworkers and illegal immigrants are captured in the census every 10 years.
Because the legal and illegal immigrant population is so large and unevenly distributed across the country, it causes some states to gain seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and Electoral College at the expense of others.
Equally important, immigration shifts political representation away from American citizens and toward states and districts with large non-citizen populations.
An investigation by the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that immigrants — legal and illegal — counted in the 2020 census shifted 17 seats in the House of Representatives and votes in the Electoral College.
The big winner is California, which has 8 more seats than it would have without immigrants.
The states that lose tend to be low-immigration states in the South and Midwest such as Ohio and Tennessee. The inclusion of non-citizens alone shifts six House seats, with half the increase going to California. Illegal immigration caused two seats to change hands.
This redistribution of political power has significant partisan implications, with Democratic-leaning states experiencing a net gain of 14 seats and electoral votes due to immigration, while Republican states had 10 fewer seats. Battlegrounds had four fewer seats.
Non-citizens alone accounted for five of the seats gained by Democratic states in the last Census.
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How did it ever get that way?
The Bush Family gave us this.
At least most of their power is now gone forever.
Illegal immigrants are not legally within the jurisdiction and should not count in proportional representation / Electors, period.
Is there a law authorizing this or did the Census Bureau just decide that as a matter of regulatory policy on its own? If the latter, winning the 2028 election becomes all the more important.
“The Census Bureau is clear that naturalized citizens, as well as non-citizens such as green card holders, foreign students, guestworkers and illegal immigrants are captured in the census every 10 years. “
The 2020 Census under counted several red state and over counted blue states- purposely imo. In the end it cost red states about 6 EV....to this day i don’t know why Trump or conservatives have not sued:
“In a shocking report, the U.S. Census Bureau recently admitted that it overcounted the populations of eight states and undercounted the populations of six states in the 2020 census.
All but one of the states overcounted is a blue state, and all but one of the undercounted states is red.
Those costly errors will distort congressional representation and the Electoral College. It means that when the Census Bureau reapportioned the House of Representatives, Florida was cheated out of two additional seats it should have gotten; Texas missed out on another seat; Minnesota and Rhode Island each kept a representative they shouldn’t have; and Colorado was awarded a new member of the House it didn’t deserve.”
Teddy Kennedy started the charade. I think we are stuck with tens of millions of illegals nomatter how hard the MAGA era tries to get them out.
They didn't make "mistakes".
Regarding California, enforcement should be focused on the cartels and the like.
No federal funds for California because they refuse to cooperate.
They'll have to wait until the next Democratic President to get the federal funds back but it may not be until 2032 or 2036 until that happens.
Trump tried to have only citizens and legal residents count for the 2020 census. Some Court struck that down.
ILLEGAL ALIENS bad for our heath care, bad for our tax base, bad for the thousand
may hap millions of American who are murdered and or victimized by them via crime,
criminal activity.
Small rural hospitals emergence rooms and urgent care facilities have been
run out of business and CLOSED because of NON reimbursed costs for the
treatment of ILLEGAL ALIENS.
Inter city emergence rooms and urgent care facilities are over run and
are on the edge of losing the ability to provide reasonable and safe care.
Things such as MRI’s and CAT scans that can mean the deference between
an in time diagnoses and untreated fatal diseases are being delayed to
accommodate ILLEGAL ALIENS.
TAX paying American citizens are DYING hourly, daily, weekly because of
this and the demoRATS, the woke left want you and I to pay more in taxes
and get less in services back so they the left can build an ILLEGAL
ALIEN block for census numbers and to allow them to vote.
As I write this NGO’s, demoRATs political pac’s, foreign socialist
millionaires like george soros are funneling money to antifa and other
paid professional protesters and terrorists to attack law enforcement
and agents of the federal government. It’s time we hold these
provocateurs accountable for their treasonous activities.
I am sure that a large number of people would support the capture and
extradition of soros and his ilk for trial or maybe a drone strike or
two would get the point across?
What go you think?
President Trump attempted to make the distinction, but he was not able to stay in office to make it stick.
It might take a statutory change. The Leftist will fight it tooth and nail.
Not if you put a bounty on their head. 100$ for every illegal ratted out. Easy money.
JEB! is such a cuck his dwarf wife insists only Spanish is spoken in their home.
outrageous
They don't want foreign influence in our elections, but are fine with foreign nationals living in our country influencing allotment of House Reps.
If I remember correctly, Roberts caused the problem. He wanted “lawful justification” for asking the citizenship question on the census.
Well something like that is definitely grounds for reapportionment mid-stream. Why would this not be done? If they have admitted it, then the House and Electors are illegally distorted for a decade.
Don't leave out Ronald Reagan. He gave "one time" *wink* *wink* amnesty to 12 million
parasites. Reagan opened the gates and primed the pump. That is Reagan's unforgivable sin.
Because most Americans hate that they’re here and will turn out to vote for those who want to get them out.
Ronald Reagan expected his successors to close our borders. Of course that did not happen.
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