Posted on 09/10/2020 6:53:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A federal court has blocked an order from President Donald Trump attempting to keep illegal immigrants' census numbers from apportioning congressional districts.
An unanimous three-judge panel for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that the executive memorandum from Trump breaks the executive branch's "constitutional responsibility to count the whole number of persons in each State and to apportion members of the House of Representatives among the States according to their respective numbers."
The court decision prevents the Department of Commerce from reporting any information related to illegal immigrants in its census numbers that could be used to carry out Trump's directive.
In 2019, the Supreme Court ruled against the president's effort to include a citizenship question to the census, saying the administration had a "contrived" motive in attempting the move.
In July, Trump directed the Commerce Department to exclude illegal immigrants from every state's population when devising the apportionment of congressional seats.
Immigrant rights groups and multiple states immediately argued Trump's decision violated the legal mandate requiring apportionment to correlate directly to the state's entire population.
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If there is no Citizenship question on the Census Form, how is it determined a person is an illegal alien?
Southern District of New York.
Again.
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How is this allowed?
Appeal the decision.
Other agencies keep track.
This dissolves the votes and rights of citizens.
They are not citizens
They are not legall able to vote
They should not affect a states population where the number of rpresentatives are concerned
Its like saying Florida can count snowbirds as part of their population and their homes stages can at the same time, its insane
Its unconstitutional, they are not citizens
Will foreigners be counted in any other countries census’ to influence the number of people in their governing bodies?
“Other agencies keep track.”
What agency keeps track of every household that has illegal aliens?
Court rules Illegals must be Legal.
(Sadly, not satire)
Shall we also count foreigners here on business or pleasure? How about ambassadors? Invaders? Is there anyone we wouldn’t count?
Or... what if we simply counted citizens? What a concept!
sorry, whoever brought this.. you have no standing.
Traitors on the bench.
No, the Southern District of New York is a part of the DOJ, it is not the Judicial Branch. The decision came from a Federal District Court. And, they may be right. Counting everyone has been required every since the 14th Amendment. At least, that has been the presumption. I don't know if it has been tested in court, but I don't think so, at least not for this broad application. The 14th Amendment originally certainly applied to freed slaves and Indians not living on Reservations. We'll find out. .
If I remember correctly, PDJT abandoned his push to get the question put on the Census Form because he found that the information was available from other government sources.
Corrections welcome.
Again, they are traitors to the United States.
If I recall, when SCOTUS blocked the question, the Trump administration just said, fine we will use other government databases to determine the citizenship.
if they are illegal, how do we know where they live?
Trump should have just told the illegals that in his 2nd term he was going to used the census data to locate and deport everyone of them. Then they would have hid from the census.
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