By Robert Laurie —— Bio and Archives March 28, 2018
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"The practical effect will be to shortchange areas of the country where there are a large number of undocumented people."In other words, Blumenthal is worried about two things. The first is losing all that filthy lucre taxpayers are funneling into places like California. If illegals refuse to answer the census because they don't want to answer the citizenship question, population numbers could drop and that could cost municipalities. Likewise, if they answer and admit their illegal status, cities might worry that their funds will be targeted by immigration hawks. The second Democrat concern is the way districts are drawn and apportioned. Seats in the House of Representatives are, after all, distributed according to census results. That's a point Marco Rubio made in a recent tweet:
The bottom line here is that - whether it's about cash or congressional seats - Democrats know how their political bread is buttered. Anything that makes it tougher for illegals to break the law will be rejected by the part that requires their support. This panic attack over a simple question is one of the clearest signs that conservatives are right about Dems' immigration goals.Latest absurd freak out is over #census2020 citizenship question. In every nation citizenship matters, so shouldn’t we know how many we have? And districts apportioned based on # of people not here legally dilutes the political representation of citizens & legal residents.
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) March 28, 2018
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