Posted on 07/21/2020 1:58:54 PM PDT by montag813
by Joe Callen
Illegal aliens will not be counted for purposes of congressional apportioning thanks to a memorandum set to be signed by President Trump on Tuesday.
Congressional seats and electoral college votes are currently divided up by counting all persons in each district, including illegal aliens. This allows states like California, New York, and Florida to receive more congressional seats and electoral college votes, while diluting political power in states with small illegal alien populations.
States like Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia were projected to lose congressional seats if the illegal alien population was included in congressional apportioning.
The memorandum, White House officials said, will ensure American citizens receive proper representation in Congress without being minimized by apportionment counts inflated by the illegal alien population.
“Today’s action to exclude illegal aliens from the apportionment base reflects a better understanding of the Constitution and is consistent with the principles of our representative democracy,” Trump said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at us24news.com ...
The memorandum and statments posted in full here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3867065/posts
Good for Trump.
LOL!
I filled out my census online a while back but today got a FB request to do my census.
Kinda wondering about that.
Wow
Don’t count Democrats in the census either.They are CINOs, citizens in name only. lol
Good. The American Criminal Liberals Union can go pound sand.
PING!
Go big Don go!
Well of course he is. This will go to SCOTUS hopefully to be upheld.
Good idea!
Order STANDS. Until Case decided. PERIOD.
"Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state" (U.S. Const., Amend. XIV, sec. 2).
We’ve got to replace at least one of the Gang of Four on the Supreme Court so Roberts doesn’t get to decide what the constitution says all by himself.
Pretty certain persons indicated citizens. Aliens have no lawful claim to representation, they cannot legally vote so of course this case of persons is intended to mean folks who can. Of course, probably 1000 pages of case law garbage likely have argued this point to ideological death....
The Libertarian party platform includes open borders and free flow of persons and goods.
And furthermore, differentiation of class of persons is already clearly established in the constitution. Indians not taxed, 3/5 of.....
The people who wrote the 14th Amendment knew the word "citizens"-- they used it four times in the Amendment. But when it came to reapportionment, they said "the whole number of persons," not citizens.
This is what we have needed for over 40 years from Republicans!
We aren’t so much a representative democracy as we are a democratic republic.
LOL! Democrats frothing...
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