>>Illegal invaders should not be counted as citizens or legal resident aliens.<<
According to the Constitution, they probably should be counted as being here, however.
But according to our laws, they shouldn’t be here in the first place.
So the Constitution says count them and the law says they don’t belong here. That causes a conflict. Maybe they should add the following option to the citizenship question: “I take the fifth amendment.”
The Constitution is written for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
When 10% of your population are illegal invaders and forces you to count them as if they were supposed to be here, it becomes a suicide pact.