[SgtHooper]

It HAS to be citizens! Otherwise, in your scenario, a hypothetical state could be 90% illegals and collect a high number of electoral votes based solely on illegals.

[SgtHooper]

I am shocked!!

https://davidson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/davidson-introduces-amendment-apportion-representation-citizen

Counts both legal and illegals. Grrrrrr.

[hanamizu]

It HAS to be citizens! Otherwise, in your scenario, a hypothetical state could be 90% illegals and collect a high number of electoral votes based solely on illegals.

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The Constitution says:
“Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers...”

So no, non-citizens (legal or otherwise) do count. As others have pointed out illegals may refuse to participate in the census.

[Tammy8]

It should be based on citizens; it currently is not. Currently it is based on "persons" and not citizens. I would think the Constitution wording would have to be changed for it to be limited to citizens. Your scenario of a hypothetical state with 90% illegals actually would have electoral votes based solely on illegals.

Illegals have many benefits just by being here, and they provide the democrat party with more than just their direct votes as you can see by this article. This article is about CA but I imagine it can have an effect on other large states with a large population of illegals- possibly Texas? There are pockets of illegals in all states at this point, how much are they skewing our government? I would think any extra representatives gained by the population of illegals might be more likely to be from Dim districts, wouldn't you?

For many reasons beyond the obvious we must deport illegals from this country. If illegals are not here they will not be counted.

The solution is to strictly enforce immigration laws, and deport as many illegals as we possibly can. That we must do ASAP to take back our country.