THIS IS WHY DEMOCRATS WANT ILLEGAL ALIENS INCLUDED IN THE CENSUS COUNT
The U.S. census — a count of every person in the country that takes place every decade — is required by the U.S. Constitution
Its results determine how many congressional representatives each state receives.
It also dictates how the federal government allocates almost $900 billion a year in federal spending.
Even a 1% overcount can net a state billions of dollars, additional congressional representation, and extra electoral votes.
Federal agencies that rely on census data for program funding:
- Justice $2 bln
- Labor $6 bln
- Treasury $12 bln
- Housing and UrbanDevelopment $39 bln (Section 8 housing vouchers)
- USDA $120 bln (SNAP, Low income housing loans, WIC)
- Health and Human Services $492 bln (Medicaid, Medicare, CHIP)
- Education $152 bln
- Transportation $52 bln
- SBA $7 bln
- Homeland Security $1 bln
The Supreme Court is set to decide the fate of a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
DEMOCRATS claim that it will "discourage immigrants and those who are not yet citizens from participating" in the decennial survey.
Because many federal financial aid programs rely on population estimates to distribute funds, excluding illegal aliens will strip funding and political power from
DEMOCRAT-dominated states with large illegal alien populations, like California and New York.
Sources: Andrew Reamer, research professor in the George Washington Institute of Public Policy; Counting for Dollars 2020: The Role of the Decennial Census in the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds; Citizenship Questions: Federal Court Expert Declaration for the Southern District of New York
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