03-28-2018, 01:28 PM
(03-28-2018, 10:08 AM)bfine32 Wrote: It also accounts for representation, which is the reason behind the question. Including non-citizens in your numbers unfairly sways the number of representation each state has; therefore, disadvantaging states that have a smaller number of illegal immigrants.
Despite all the explanations provided, it still comes down to the feeble reason that I earlier asserted. If you make it a requirement folks won't do it. If they don't do it they are only hurting their economy.
"Obama's coming for you guns" has been replaced with "Trump's coming for your illegals."
As of right now, the courts have said that all persons, citizens and non, must be counted in the census and included for apportionment. We include many segments of non-voting persons in these figures (children, cognitively disabled, prisoners, etc.), so we would need to reevaluate those as well if we were to discuss the way counting non-voting populations dis/advantages states.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
