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The redistricting battle throughout the nation is bringing renewed consideration to how the census counts people who find themselves non-citizens, and if individuals right here illegally are inflating the statistics that in the end determine congressional seats and the Electoral Faculty.
Texas is taking a look at redistricting, as blue states like California are eyeing the potential for additionally redistricting to counter any potential Republican seat additions.
Nonetheless, there’s been a debate about whether or not to incorporate a query asking to confirm someone’s citizenship on the census, and solely use the citizen figures to find out congressional district and Electoral Faculty numbers.
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An envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident in Detroit. A federal decide on Thursday, Might 21, 2020, agreed to impose monetary sanctions in opposition to the Trump administration for failing to provide a whole bunch of paperwork throughout litigation over whether or not a citizenship query may very well be added to the 2020 census. (Paul Sancya/AP Picture)
In the meantime, blue states and cities, significantly sanctuary jurisdictions, have confronted main sweeps from federal immigration authorities, resulting in questions in regards to the variety of unlawful immigrants that would have been counted within the 2020 census, though it was earlier than the Biden-era border disaster.
The Workplace of Homeland Safety Statistics reported in 2024 that there have been roughly 2.6 million “unauthorized immigrants” dwelling in California, and simply over 2 million dwelling in Texas as of 2022.
Many different states, like Florida, New Jersey, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Georgia, Washington, and Arizona, additionally had numbers within the a whole bunch of 1000’s, in accordance with the workplace’s estimates on the time.
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Immigrants wait to be processed at a U.S. Border Patrol transit heart after they crossed the border from Mexico on December 20, 2023 in Eagle Cross, Texas. A late-year surge of migrants crossing the U.S. southern border has overwhelmed U.S. immigration officers. (John Moore/Getty Pictures)
The “Equal Illustration Act” was re-introduced within the Senate in June with heavy Republican assist, which might add the query and omit non-citizens from being counted within the apportionments, as they’ve a significant political affect.
“It’s unconscionable that unlawful immigrants and non-citizens are counted towards congressional district apportionment and our electoral map for the presidency, which additionally closely skews the seat depend within the U.S. Home of Representatives,” Sen. Invoice Hagerty, R-Tenn., stated in an announcement in June on the laws.
“Whereas individuals proceed to flee Democrat-run cities, determined Democrats have back-filled the mass exodus with unlawful immigrants in order that they don’t lose their seats in Congress or their electoral votes, therefore artificially boosting their political energy and in flip diluting the facility of different Individuals’ votes. I’m happy to guide my colleagues in reintroducing this laws that may require a citizenship query on the census and can be sure that solely residents are counted in congressional redistricting,” he added.
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“Most Individuals can be shocked to be taught that states with extra unlawful immigrants are awarded larger illustration in Congress consequently. Addressing this perverse characteristic of reapportionment must be a part of any dialogue about redistricting reform going ahead,” Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., advised Fox Information Digital in an announcement.
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Texas Democrats stood subsequent to Illinois lawmakers on Aug. 4, 2025, to oppose redistricting measures proposed by Texas Republicans. (Fox Information)
The argument from Republicans is that if people who find themselves non-citizens and within the nation illegally are being counted, it creates an artificially excessive quantity for illustration. Whereas there’s been dialogue prior to now, the tens of millions of unlawful immigrants that arrived within the nation through the Biden administration introduced the priority again.
A proposal from Rep. Chuck Edwards handed the Home final yr through the Biden administration, however it by no means turned regulation and was introduced again by the Republican this session.
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“However even when not a single unlawful alien casts a vote, the mere presence of unlawful immigrants within the U.S. is having a profound affect on the result of elections, skewing the illustration of Individuals,” Edwards stated on the time.
“Mr. Biggs factors out that the U.S. Structure mandates {that a} census be carried out each ten years, the place everybody who’s current in the US, no matter their citizenship and immigration standing, is counted. However the Structure doesn’t specify whether or not non-citizens or unlawful aliens should be counted for the aim of apportioning Home seats,” he added.
