Posted on 06/29/2025 6:12:34 AM PDT by janetjanet998
Following a years-long surge in illegal immigration, the Trump administration is poised to challenge a longstanding but legally fraught practice: counting illegal aliens in the U.S. census.
President Trump tried to end the practice during his first term, but President Biden overturned his predecessor’s policy before it was implemented. Now, buoyed by red state attorneys general and Republican legislators, the second Trump administration is determined “to clean up the census and make sure that illegal aliens are not counted,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller said last month.
The Libs will meltdown (again)
YAY!!!
If the census is to count citizens then that should preclude criminal aliens.
Agree....Illegals should not be counted...they are NOT residents.
A census is used to count AMERICANS. If foreign nationals want to be counted, they need to go home and have their own country count them. This will keep illegals from colonizing America and filling our government with America-hating foreign national politicians. Americans didn’t vote for Zohran. Communist Zohranis did. Mexico is getting ready to take over California and Americans aren’t going to be able to do anything about it. We are being colonized by Joe Pedo’s illegal alien invaders.
I thought SCOTUS ruled that that question couldn’t be asked in the census.
The way it should be. Counting illegal aliens is like counting tourists.
Longstanding? I thought Obama was the one who removed the citizenship question from the census form.
As someone who spent over 10 years doing my family’s history, I’ve learned that Censuses really suck. The 1890 census, one that was very important to my research burned up. It doesn’t exist. Censuses are primarily used for the DemonRATS to get more seats in the House and engage in Gerrymandering. Get rid of it.
The headline is misleading. The census will include legal aliens. The headline states only citizens will be counted. The headline is a trick of the left to present false information.
In my training for my first job I was told that I must not ask any questions about citizenship or anything related to citizenship. Most of the homes I was assigned to visit were in middle class...or "upper class"...suburban neighborhoods so apart from one Korean lady's home I visited (she spoke perfect English and lived in an upscale neighborhood) I didn't really run across any foreigners.
Unfortunately, this is a bad move that is a result of SCOTUS decision that they couldn’t ask for citizenship status for certain intent.
You’re right, and THIS is the proverbial hill the Democrats would “die on”; as fudging the census to count illegals gains them more seats in the House of Representatives. Cleaning it up only helps Republicans and the citizens who belong here.
What is necessary is NOT to remove them from the Census. What is important is to disqualify them for purposes of congressional reapportionment.
The Census itself has become a vast enterprise collecting statistical information for myriad purposes. That’s not why it was required in the constitution. Call it mission creep if you want. Maybe the census should be trimmed way back — in which case, we would simply create separate reporting regimes to collect the data that has been a census produce for generations.
The reality is that this data is extremely useful for myriad purposes. It should be collected. We can argue about the particulars and the limits, but it is kinda, sorta important for a city to know how many people actually live there and who they might be. Count ‘em.
Non-citizens shouldn’t count for congressional reapportionment. But we shouldn’t pretend they aren’t here. What to do about them is a separate question.
Capital idea no more Bolsheviks masked as democrats.
Best thing that could possibly happen. Democrats will immediately abandon illegals if this happens.
All (Demoncrat) states where illegals were counted should lose representation in Congress. This one move alone would guarantee a Republican supermajority in house.
Next, states where election fraud in the form of ballot boxes and harvesting should lose Senate seats. Dems cannot maintain any relevance without the cheat.
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