The House is eyeing multiple avenues for cracking down on how illegal immigration could affect U.S. elections, including adding a citizenship question to the census.
The House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday evening to add a citizenship question to the next U.S. census, with zero Democrats voting in favor. 'If you are an illegal immigrant, you should not be represented in the U.S. Congress,' House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., told Fox News Digital after the vote. 'It’s a shame that House Democrats are allowing their open-borders agenda to get in the way of common sense.
Though commonsense dictates that only citizens should be counted for apportionment purposes, illegal aliens have nonetheless recently been counted toward the final tallies that determine how many House seats each state is allocated and the number of electoral votes it will wield in presidential elections,' Edwards said during debate on the bill.
This requirement would deprive tens of millions of immigrants their right to representation,' Barragan said, adding it would have a 'chilling effect on participation in the census.' 'Its accuracy would be destroyed,' she said. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., a supporter of the bill, argued it would not negate the census' intended purpose of counting everyone in the U.S.
You could see why my Democratic colleagues would have a problem with this bill. Factoring illegal aliens into the process skews things in their favor,' Burchett said. 'If the census does not include the citizenship question, states with more illegal aliens will get more congressional districts and more electoral college votes.' CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md.
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