6mo ago

Kansas joins effort to stop counting noncitizens in census, but communities fear damage.

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Kansas joins effort to stop counting noncitizens in census, but communities fear damage

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Why don't they compromise and only count them as 3/5
This doesn't seem like it ought to be all-or-nothing. Knowing the number of citizens and the total number of residents is useful for different purposes. Electoral votes: citizens. Disaster response: residents. And so on.
- Except that's not how the Constitution is currently written:
  . . . shall be determined by . . . the whole Number of free Persons . . .
  It doesn't mention citizens for apportionment.
  
  Then they have a higher hurdle to clear. All I'm saying is it seems reasonable to give a state representation based on the number of citizens.
  I got curious about the size of the issue. The numbers I found for Texas was an estimated 1.6 million illegal immigrants out of a total population of 30.5 million, or roughly 5%. There are 38 reps from Texas, so they'd lose one or two.
- Yeah, Republicans are fucking braindead racists.
  Noncitizens in your locality use resources, same as citizens. Under their bullshit, a town that had 1 citizen and 10,000 immigrants would be horribly mismanaged.
  Which is probably the point, actually.
  
  Yes, they don't want to allocate resources for them.
Undocumented people are still people
If they manage this we should then point to the census whenever they whine about "illegals" since there wouldn't be any. Kinda like when Herr Trumpler wanted to stop testing for covid.
Hi, Dot/Joker/000:
You gonna nuke this account and all conversations attached to the posts, too?
- Sounds like I missed something spicy.
  
  They nuked their account, but you can get the gist of it here: https://dubvee.org/post/dubvee.org/2659753
  (I restored the post and undeleted it locally, so it should show up)

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