Citizenship Required on 2020 census

[Benton]

(03-27-2018, 06:16 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: I heard some talk on the radio about this.  Why should illegal immigrants count toward population in terms of representation?  The representatives should be representing the citizens of the US, not the non-citizens.

Constitution aside, the number of people in an area is always going to be an issue. Going to extremes, if you have 75,000 people in an area receiving municipal funds for 50,000, you're going to have issues with sanitation, traffic, housing, etc. The debate on whether those extra 50,000 people should count is fine, but at the end of the day, communities still have to handle the uncounted 25,000 driving on rods, flushing toilets, etc.