Ignoring Trump and the electoral implications it does raise an interesting question of how house seats should be divided.
Should it be based on
- all people
- all eligible voters
- all citizens
I think it would be pretty reasonable to make it all citizens when deciding how much representation each area gets. Why should the number of non-citizens living in an area change the amount of electoral influence an area gets
From a funding perspective you need to count legal and illegal immigrants because these people still require services and create costs so they definitely need to be counted. However from an electoral standpoint I would agree with Trump here.
Though the law being written as “Whole Persons” rather than specifically citizens should allow the congress to win along with the fact that congress desides the rules for the census not the president.
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