Posted on 05/08/2024 3:12:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The GOP-led House of Representatives is scheduled to vote for Wednesday on legislation that would add a U.S. citizenship question to the census.
The census is conducted every 10 years.
The Equal Representation Act, would require a "citizenship question on the decennial census" as well as "modify apportionment of Representatives to be based on United States citizens instead of all persons."
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, "at the conclusion of each census, the results are used to calculate the number of House memberships to which each state is entitled," a process referred to as apportionment.
The Trump administration explored adding a citizenship question to 2020 census forms but ultimately decided not to move forward.
Democrats oppose adding such a question, arguing that the census should count every person residing in the U.S. regardless of their immigration status.
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Exactly, this is actually a surrender. They are saying unless we pass legislation illegals must be counted which gives the House to the rats permanently.
Exactly, this is actually a surrender. They are saying unless we pass legislation illegals must be counted which gives the House to the rats permanently.
Probably
Does it require Senate approval?
Laws require passage by both Houses of Congress, since 1789
If approved and Biden veto’s, are there enough votes in the House to overturn?
No.
This waste of taxpayers money is even worse.
Most will claim to be a citizen once they see how easy it is to get away with it.
Unless the census takers are trained to spot forgeries and only count those who have federal identification cards they will indeed get away with it.
This waste of taxpayers money is even worse.
Most will claim to be a citizen once they see how easy it is to get away with it.
Unless the census takers are trained to spot forgeries and only count those who have federal identification cards they will indeed get away with it.
This won’t get past a veto and probably not even past the Senate.
Trump tried to fix this and I believe that our communist anti- American USSC stopped him.
We should only be counting U.S. Citizens. If the illegal aliens freaks want to be counted, they should go home and be counted.
i support this but it is essentially meaningless.
anyone who has snuck (or been airlifted by Biden’s secret airplane transports) into USA can just check the “citizen” box, or enter a fake id, or just flush the survey down the toilet
what would count is proof of citizenship at the voting booth
Yes
It was on the census until the 60’s(?)
They could have done this back when they owned the house, senate, and presidency but didn’t.This is theater. they don’t give a damn about this country.
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