Obviously they are doing this to villify immigrants and discourage participation in the census, not because they actually care about who counts for the census. Citizenship requirements are intended to scare people who are citizens but often assumed to be non-citizens from participating along with the non-citizens.
It also diminishes the political power of regions where there are more undocumented immigrants by giving them less representation in the House
Hence their congressional inaction on immigration reform since 2013.
If only they didn’t keep shipping all that political power to blue states just to compete for who can be the biggest turdmonger in the south
If the census was just to determine house and electoral vote distribution, I would say go for it! The states with higher number of non-citizens are normally represented by Republicans. If they want to decrease their power, great!
However, the census is also used for funding allocation for things that help noncitizens. Not counting them would screw up that.
They don’t want to help noncitizens at all. He’ll they don’t want to help anyone but themselves. Prosperity doctrine done fucked them up.
Noncitizens pay taxes, too.
What was that thing people shouted a long time ago? No taxation without representation?
Maybe they should get more substantial representation…?
What was that thing people shouted a long time ago? No taxation without representation?
Oh, they got that quote all screwed up. It should say: “No! Taxation without representation!”
It’s just the opposite, actually. Most migrants are bused to sanctuary cities in Democratic states. They increase representation in the House for Democrats.
“Most migrants” or just the ones people hear about?
If you’re talking about illegal migrants, they have good reason to get out of red states.
Speaking of Texas, they have bused over 100k migrants to Democratic sanctuary cities over the last year .
https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/operation-lone-star-holds-the-line-to-defend-southern-border
Lol, they will count each and every illegal immigrant in their red states and county’s without issue or fuss, and they will turn around use their legal weight to contest the coint of each and every minority with a funny sounding name in blue states, demanding they be thoroughly investigated.
I wonder what they do when the numbers do not reflect their rhetoric
Fascists just make the acceptable circle smaller and smaller.
Any time a Republican does anything, I first ask myself what a bad-faith actor would do, and it usually turns out to be that thing.
