There's growing support from Republicans in Congress for excluding non-U.S. citizens from a special census count that the 14th Amendment says must include the 'whole number of persons in each state.'
There's growing support from Republicans in Congress for excluding non-U.S. citizens from a special census count that the 14th Amendment says must include the"whole number of persons in each state."Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee speaks about the Senate version of the Equal Representation Act during a January press conference in Washington, D.C. The bill is one of at least a dozen GOP proposals to exclude some or all non-U.S.
The Trump administration attempted to add the question"Is this person a citizen of the United States?" to the 2020 census forms as part ofIn recent months, however, Republican lawmakers have called for similar changes with no pretense. Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky is chair of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, which last month advanced a bill that calls for leaving noncitizens out of congressional apportionment counts.
On the other side of Capitol Hill, Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee has been leading the Senate Republican push to change the apportionment numbers — and reframe Democratic criticism of similar efforts by the Trump administration.
Jeff Passel, one of the Pew study's co-authors and a demographer who has tracked immigration trends for decades, warns, however, thatused to redistribute congressional seats"can be very sensitive to small changes in populations," making it especially difficult to predict potential scenarios accurately.
Where immigrants choose to settle is shifting, and that adds to the difficulty in foreseeing the electoral-map implications from any changes to the next set of apportionment counts from the 2030 census.
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