Posted on 10/16/2020 2:21:23 PM PDT by janetjanet998
There are quarterly census’s that determine citizenship. By including non-citizens for representation, it dilutes your representation. Let’s say 100,000 people = 1 congressional Rep. Now If a district has 100,000 people, and 100,000 illegals, they get 2 Reps. Hope this explains why this issue is so important. If Trump wins this, everything changes.
It should also include electoral college allocation as well
On the day that a hotel's census tract gets counted, yes, guests at the hotel get counted.
Yes they do.
If they are persons, yes, they get counted.
The EC is determined by the number of representatives allotted to the state plus 2 senators.
Even the ones paying out of state tuition for 4 years?
Should we count dual citizens as well?
Then there may really be 12 billion people in this world.
So a reduction in the number House reps from a state like California due to not counting illegals would also equate to a reduction in electoral votes from CA..correct?
A state’s electoral votes equals its two senators plus its representatives in the House. So, yes. Currently, I believe California has 2S + 54R = 56 EV.
Go Trump!
I was thinking same thing. Kids at out of state college 21 and over get counted twice???
It was not yet clear how the census takers would determine the citizenship status of those responding as the Supreme Court last year blocked Trump’s effort to add the question to the census. If his attempt to exclude the illegal immigrants from being counted moves forward, California will end up losing two seats in the House rather than one as was previously expected.
Florida would end up gaining only one seat rather than two and Texas would gain two instead of three, according to the study. But the split of the 435 House seats in the apportionment process will mean three other states, Alabama, Minnesota and Ohio, will end up keeping a seat they each had been set to lose.
According to Pew Research:
In addition to these states, 11 more would gain or lose seats based on population change alone, whether unauthorized immigrants are included or excluded. Five states would gain one seat each: Arizona, Colorado, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon. Six states would lose one seat each: Illinois, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia.
That’s great information. Thank you very much
And they get counted at home as well?
Reynolds v. Sims (state legislatures) and Wesberry v. Sanders (U.S. House) both say “citizens.”
How can you enforce Amendment XIV without knowing how many citizens there are?
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