Monday, June 30, 2025

Stop the steal!-----Who Counts? Trump Poised To Try To Remove Noncitizens From Census | RealClearInvestigations

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. - Benjamin Weingarten
President Trump tried to end the practice during his first term, but President Biden overturned his predecessor’s policy before it was implemented...
It could have significant political implications because the census count is used to 
  • apportion House seats
  • determine the number of votes each state gets in the Electoral College for selecting the president, and drive the flow of trillions of dollars in government funds.
  • Some immigration researchers project that including noncitizens in the census count disproportionately benefits Democratic states with large illegal alien populations...

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