The inclusion of aliens, legal or illegal, in the population used for apportionment of the U.S. House of Representatives and for redistricting (i.e., drawing new boundary lines for congressional, state legislative, and local city council and county commission offices) unfairly dilutes the votes of U.S. citizens and distorts their representation and political power within legislative bodies.
States should start conducting their own censuses and use citizen-only population in all redistricting.
Only Congress can fix the apportionment problem, and both President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress already attempted to do that. Trump was unsuccessful in reinstating a citizen question on the 2020 Census form. In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a strange 5-to-4 decision, held in Department of Commerce v. New York that while Trump had the constitutional and…
