Are illegals supposed to, by law, be counted in teh Census?
Included in the total pop counts to allocate House Districts among the Sates?
Used for drawing State Congressional District Boundaries?
The answer is clearly THEY HAVE BEEN .
The answer to all 3 of your questions is “YES”.
The democrat fear is that inquiring about their citizenship
will discourage them from participating.
Are illegals supposed to, by law, be counted in teh Census?
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Anyone living in the US is counted toward assigning Congressional districts. It shouldn’t be so, but is past policy.
Now, for the reason the Dems don’t want the question, is that the Dems know many illegals will not fill out the census form, for fear they will be labeling themselves as illegal.
We really need to know how many citizens are living in the US, as opposed to those who are non-citizens.
When the number of illegals living is exposed, the Dems will have to face up to their skulduggery. Also voter rolls can be cross referenced with the census data and reveal how many non-citizens vote.
Included in the total pop counts to allocate House Districts among the Sates?
Used for drawing State Congressional District Boundaries?
Article I, Section 2 says "Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons." Now obviously the 3/5ths clause was done away with by the 13th and 14th Amendments but it doesn't say anything about not counting non-citizens, legal or otherwise.
No doubt this will be appealed.
Are they Indians not taxed? Are they persons?