U.S. House of Representatives Approves Bill to Reintroduce Citizenship Question to Census

On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill aimed at reintroducing the citizenship question to the census in the United States. The legislation passed in the House adds a question regarding U.S. citizenship to the 2030 census questionnaire, which obligates the United States to consider citizens when determining the number of congressional seats each state receives. If approved by the Senate, it could potentially change congressional representation and the electoral college. Republicans voted in favor of the 'Equal Representation Act' with 206 votes for and 202 votes against from Democrats. The bill was proposed by Republican representatives Chuck Edwards from North Carolina and Warren Davidson from Ohio. Given the presence of millions of illegal aliens in the United States, exacerbated by the Biden administration's border policies, the goal of this law is to protect the electoral power of Americans and congressional representation by ensuring that the citizenship of aliens and non-voting immigrants is clarified in the census. Chuck Edwards stated before the bill's passage in the House, 'If you are an illegal alien in America, you should not have representation in the United States Congress. It is shameful that House Democrats allow their open border agenda to cloud common sense.' Democrats unanimously opposed the bill. 'Yvette Clarke,' a Democratic representative from New York, acknowledged the benefits of counting illegal aliens in the census in an interview posted on X, stating, 'We have an immigrant population that can be significantly counted, and I need more people just for the purposes of redistricting my area.' The citizenship question has been included in every census questionnaire from 1820 to 2000, except for the 2010 census under Barack Obama. The Trump administration attempted to reinstate the citizenship question in 2020, but the Supreme Court, with a majority of progressive judges, opposed it. Ryan Walker, Executive Vice President of 'Heritage Action,' a conservative foundation, supported the passage of the 'Equal Representation Act,' stating that illegal immigrants and other non-citizens cannot vote and should not be given the power to change the outcome of elections or determine congressional seat representation. Especially considering the border crisis caused by Biden's border policy, which has brought over 10 million aliens into our country, the Equal Representation Act returns electoral power to those who have the right to vote, namely American citizens, which every member of Congress should protect. In 2019, before millions of aliens entered the U.S. during Biden's term, a study by the Center for Immigration Studies estimated that non-citizens and illegal aliens in the U.S. would influence the outcome of 26 congressional seats. The Biden administration, in a statement about its policies released this week, expressed strong opposition to the passage of this bill, as it would prevent the Census Bureau from fulfilling its constitutional responsibility to count the number of individuals in the United States every decade. The 'Equal Representation Act' does not prevent the census from counting aliens present in the U.S. but merely adds the citizenship question to the questionnaires.