With No Final Say, Trump Wants To Change Who Counts For Dividing Up Congress' Seats:
President Trump released a memorandum Tuesday that calls for an unprecedented change to the constitutionally mandated count of every person living in the country — the exclusion of unauthorized immigrants from the numbers used to divide up seats in Congress among the states.
The memo instructs Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Commerce Department, to include in the legally required report of census results to the president "information permitting the President, to the extent practicable" to leave out the number of immigrants living in the U.S. without authorization from the apportionment count.
But the move by the president, who does not have final authority over the census, is more likely to spur legal challenges and political spectacle in the last months before this year's presidential election than a transformation of the once-a-decade head count, which has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.
[...] Since the first U.S. census in 1790, both U.S. citizens and noncitizens — regardless of immigration status — have been included in the country's official population counts.
The fifth sentence of the Constitution specifies that "persons" residing in the states should be counted every 10 years to determine each state's share of seats in the House of Representatives. The 14th Amendment, which ended the counting of an enslaved person as "three fifths" of a free person, goes further to require the counting of the "whole number of persons in each state."
It is Congress — not the president — that Article 1, Section 2 of the country's founding document empowers to carry out the "actual enumeration" of the country's population in "such manner as they shall by law direct."
In Title 2 of the U.S. Code, Congress detailed its instructions for the president to report to lawmakers the tally of the "whole number of persons" living in each state for the reapportionment of House seats. In Title 13, Congress established additional key dates for the "tabulation of total population."
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday July 24 2020, @10:15PM (3 children)
What do you call the people who intentionally implement policies designed to flood a nation with immigrants thus changing who will represent who? Someone decided to replace all the white people in the American SW states with Hispanics, I don't think it was Trump, LOL.
Consider any judge in the history of the country whom has ever removed voting rights from another person, perhaps via felony conviction as some states remove voting rights from felons (which seems a good idea).
Is the bureaucrat whom approved a US citizen immigrating from the USA to the UK a dictator merely because he acknowledges the former citizen thinks they're no longer a US citizen and sees themselves as a UK subject now?
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday July 25 2020, @03:57AM
Yep, make a plant illegal and make sure the users, who are often a different race, can't vote to change the unjust law. Rinse and repeat and pretty soon you've got rid of all those undesirable voters.
BTW, the UK has very few subjects now, a few old Irish is about it. You're thinking of UK citizens as the UK is not as feudal as America, pretty well the only country with segregation based on the feudal idea of a felon. Perhaps you guys could enter the 19th century?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @09:15AM (1 child)
Just FYI most hispanics in SW states were there before white people. It is a fact... Look it up.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday July 26 2020, @02:15PM
Kinda like the Palestinians were in Israel first, so the Jews and their country should be removed, right?