Rich Welsh @ DJHJ Media:
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) on Tuesday went bonkers over President Donald Trump’s executive order that excludes illegal aliens from being counted for functions of congressional apportioning, data coming from the census.
“Counting every person in our country through the Census is a principle so foundational that it is written into our Constitution,” Newsom said in a statement. “This latest action by the administration to exclude undocumented immigrants when determining representation in Congress, rooted in racism and xenophobia, is a blatant attack on our institutions and our neighbors.”
Notice how this clown governor calls them “undocumented” instead of illegal? Governor clown also went with the usual Democrat model of blaming racism and xenophobia, because they know Trump is right and they are being political.
Here’s why illegal aliens should not be included in congressional apportionment. Illegal aliens, despite Democrat push back, are still not citizens, and therefore do not have the right to vote for people they want to represent them in Congress. It’s called a republic, where the citizens elect their representatives.
Since illegal aliens are here illegally, they do not have the right to representation over citizens who do.
We have a system that remedies this, it’s called our immigration system. People come into the country legally, and then apply for citizenship. Once they become citizens they have every legal right to tell the world who they want to represent them. That’s how it works and how it should work, but Democrats want to devalue your citizenship.
On Tuesday, President Trump signed the order, saying the memorandum is designed to bar “illegal aliens from the apportionment base following the 2020 Census.”
The memorandum has brought lawsuits as it follows the Department of Commerce losing a Supreme Court case last year the place it tried to include a question about citizenship status on the 2020 census. Even though there was a citizenship question in the past, including during the Obama administration, Democrats were quick to point out that while the Constitution mentions a census, it doesn’t specifically say it must be citizens, because the Founders believed that was understood. No nation counts non citizens as citizens, and so our Founding Fathers never dreamed there would be people unscrupulous enough to make that argument, but such is the modern-day leftist.
Nonetheless, the memorandum stated that the Constitution does not require undocumented immigrants to be counted for the purpose of apportionment of the House of Representatives.
If I’m being held hostage by three armed thugs when a Census worker knocks on my door, Dems would argue I must claim them as residents of my home!
That’s how absurd this is.
Well… that’s the theory. Sometimes it doesn’t appear Democrats are aware of the law.
This harks back to the 3/5ths compromise which sought to keep slave states from expanding representation and power based on the numbers of slaves in those states, people who were NOT represented. Similarly, illegal immigrants aren’t “represented”. They can’t be; they hide from the representation. They can’t vote (shouldn’t, at least) so they can’t be decide the character of their representation, either. They are here to mow grass and be pawns.
If this can be successfully upheld, it will not only be a severe economic hit on sanctuary cities and states (they have invested a lot in luring illegal immigrants to their districts strictly for this purpose) but we could see a surge in new support for immigration reform and enforcement. For, it would no longer be beneficial to spend taxpayer funds to subsidize illegal immigrants.
This is EXACTLY how the census should be.