The debate of census citizenship heralds the representation of the congress

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The battle of redistribution across the country attracts renewed attention to the way in which the census counts non -citizen, and if people here illegally swell the statistics which ultimately decide seats in the Congress and the Electoral College.
Texas is considering redistribution, because blue states and California are considering the possibility of restarting also to counter the potential additions of republican seats.
However, there was a debate on the opportunity to include a question asking to verify someone’s citizenship on the census, and to use only the figures of citizens to determine the numbers of the Congress and electoral colleges.
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An envelope containing a 2020 census letter sent to an American resident in Detroit. A federal judge on Thursday, May 21, 2020, agreed to impose financial sanctions against the Trump administration for having failed to produce hundreds of documents when a dispute about whether a question of citizenship could be added to the 2020 census. (Paul Sancya / AP Photo)
Meanwhile, the Blue States and Cities, in particular the courts of the sanctuary, faced important scans from the federal immigration authorities, which led to questions about the number of illegal immigrants who could have been counted in the 2020 census, even if it was before the border crisis of the Biden era.
THE Interior security statistics office reported in 2024 that there were around 2.6 million unauthorized immigrants “living in California, and just over 2 million people in Texas in 2022.
Many other states, such as Florida, New Jersey, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Georgia, Washington and Arizona, also had a number of hundreds of thousands, according to office estimates at the time.
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Immigrants are waiting to be treated in a transit center of American border patrol after crossing the Mexico border on December 20, 2023 in Eagle Pass, Texas. A wave of migrants at the end of the year crossing the South American border overwhelmed US immigration officials. (John Moore / Getty Images)
The “law on equal representation” was reintroduced to the Senate in June with heavy republican support, which would add the question and leave aside the non-citizens to be counted in the distributions, because they have a major political impact.
“It is unacceptable that illegal immigrants and non-citizens be counted for the distribution of the congress district and our electoral card for the presidency, which also biased the number of seats in the American House of Representatives,” said senator Bill Hagety, R-Tenn.
“While people continue to flee the cities managed by democrats, desperate democrats have filled the mass exodus with illegal immigrants so that they do not lose their siege in the congress or their electoral votes, so I do not strengthen their political power and only require votes of the Americans who would require a question of citizens are counted in the redistribution of the congress.”
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“Most Americans would be surprised to learn that states with more illegal immigrants have attributed themselves to greater representation in the congress. Consequently, the fight against this perverse characteristic of the distribution must be part of any discussion on the redistribution of the reform in the future,” said representative Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., Fox News said in a press release.
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The Democrats of Texas stood next to the Illinois legislators on August 4, 2025, to oppose the redistribution measures proposed by the Republicans of Texas. (Fox News)
The argument of the Republicans is that if people who are non -citizens and in the country are illegally counted, this creates an artificially high number for representation. Although there have been discussions in the past, the millions of illegal immigrants who have arrived in the country during the Biden administration brought the concern.
A proposal from the representative Chuck Edwards adopted the Chamber last year during the Biden administration, but it never became the law and was brought back by the Republican this session.
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“But even if it is not a single illegal foreigner, votes, the simple presence of illegal immigrants in the United States has a deep impact on the outcome of the elections, biaring the representation of the Americans,” said Edwards at the time.
“Mr. Biggs stresses that the American Constitution requires that a census be carried out every ten years, where all those present in the United States, regardless of their status of citizenship and immigration, are counted. But the Constitution does not specify whether non-citizens or illegal foreigners must be counted for distribution of the chamber’s seats,” he added.