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The 2020 Census intends to ask the question: Are you a U.S. citizen? The question is simply a matter of gathering data for determining congressional seats, distributing federal money, and protecting voting rights at the Justice Department.
Only citizens may vote in federal elections. But scheming states that have offered a welcome mat to illegal aliens use the headcount to gain powerful advantages in numbers of congressional districts, Electoral College sway, and federal spending.
Not surprisingly, the Left is kicking and screaming at having to reveal this secret weapon that yields political clout against states that do not inflate the population rolls with non-citizens. As long ago as the 2000 Census, numbers revealed that over 18 million non-citizen persons were counted above the total number of citizens.
The advantaged states with the larger non-citizen estimates are able to leverage calculated power. An analysis of Census 2000 data provided in 2005 by the Center for Immigration Studies revealed that about 70% of the non-citizens were located in just 6 states. Of these benefiting states, California gained 6 seats, where 1 in 7 residents was a non-citizen. Three other seats went to New York, Texas and Florida where 1 in 10 residents was a non-citizen.
The Electoral College is impacted equally. Congressional delegation districts determine the composition of the Electoral College.
It makes sense that the districts with the highest non-citizen counts are centered in areas where cities and counties have declared sanctuary zones. California has now announced that it is a sanctuary state. States with sanctuary districts attract a higher number of illegal aliens and are loath to admit the unlawful-alien inflation that transfers congressional seats to them from other states. The shift of congressional districts to those more liberal areas that consolidate illegal aliens arguably accounts for critical votes that put close legislative contests like Obamacare over the top.
Alabama has filed a lawsuit claiming that including illegal immigrants in the 2020 Census could cause it to lose a congressional seat and an Electoral College vote. Alabama believes this “will rob the State of Alabama and its legal residents of their rightful share of representation.”
The Public Interest Legal Foundation testified before Congress to illustrate how minority populations may be disadvantaged by the lack of accurate eligible voter data. In the 2000 Census, 48 percent of Lake Park (Florida) residents were black, but “in 2009 not a single black candidate for town council had ever won a seat.” In this case, a large non-citizen Haitian population distorted the count of the black citizenship population. The problem was that the authorities “could not turn to the Census in 2009 for precise citizenship data because precise citizenship data were not collected in the 2000 Census.”
A fixed total of 435 congressional seats in the United States are divided among the states according to population — including citizens, citizen candidates like refugees, lawful resident aliens, temporary visa-holders, and illegal aliens. The estimates for the numbers of non-citizens are derived from a questionnaire called the American Community Survey (ACS). But this long-form survey only asks the citizenship question of 2.6% of households.
Congress was given constitutional plenary power over citizenship and immigration for the very purpose that state schemes would not be allowed to subvert a national “uniform rule.” Roger Sherman, likely the only Founder to have signed all four founding documents, spoke during the debates on the Naturalization Act of 1790 to say that “in order to prevent particular States receiving citizens, and forcing them upon others who would not have received them in any other manner” the Congress should exclusively control immigration.
The Trump administration has met with solid resistance to re-instating the citizenship question (last asked on the Census in 1950). Citizen voter rights and protections go to the heart of sovereignty. President Trump is right to fulfill federal responsibility to ensure the right of each citizen to have one undiluted vote.
BIO: Lugo is the founder of the Libertas-West Project, a center for study Islamic integration and radicalization issues. In this capacity, she writes and speaks for European and American groups on the importance of basing assimilation efforts on principles of Western exceptionalism. She presented a policy brief to the French Conseil d’Etat analyzing the legal implications of banning the burqa. Lugo has written one of the most comprehensive overviews sharia law in American courts for the Federalist Society’s journal, Engage, titled: American Family Law and Sharia-Compliant Marriages. She is currently publishing a handbook through the Center for Security Policy on mosque building permits and the Religious Land and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) and she presented a white paper on the American Law for American Courts legislative initiative and its compatibility with international adoption law.
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