Census and California

In Article 1, Section 2 of the United States Constitution it specifies that the House of Representatives shall have representatives allocated to each state to reflect that state’s population. It is obvious that each representative was supposed to represent approximately the same number of people across all states, and that they also were to represent the citizens who elected them. These two points are fundamental to the concept of representative government. To repeat, an elected house representative should represent a specified number of voters so that there is equal representation of all the voting citizens of the country. It is ludicrous to claim that an elected representative represents people who are not citizens and not qualified to vote. Exemplifying the will of the voters and the welfare of the voters should be the objectives of the elected representative.

In Article 1, Section 2 it also specifies that there shall be a count taken every ten years to ensure that the number of citizens being represented is still approximately the same for all members of the house. It makes absolutely no sense to claim that this ten year enumeration should include non-citizens who have no right to representation in the House of Representatives. To be more specific, if a state has a substantial number of non-citizens residing in it who are counted the same as citizens, the state will be apportioned more representatives than they should have. This is in fact the truth. The ten year census which should count the number of citizens to be represented actually does not differentiate between eligible citizens and illegal aliens. This is distorting the allocation of seats in the House of Representatives. I will use the state of California as an example to demonstrate how this is destroying a fair allocation of seats in the House.

The population of California based on the 2010 census was 37,254,518. That is the total number derived for everyone, including illegal aliens. The number of seats allocated in the House of Representative for California based on the 2010 census was 53 seats. However, multiple sources estimating the number of illegal aliens in California conclude that there are between 2.3 million and 2.7 million illegal aliens living in California. Therefore, the number of seats in the House of Representatives allocated to California included seats for these illegal aliens. The math is simple, 2.3 million divided by 37 million calculates out to more than 6% of the California seats are due to counting illegal aliens the same as citizens. California has three more seats allocated to it than it should. Illegal aliens DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT OF REPRESENTATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

The other states should be incensed by the over representation of California due to the counting of illegals in the apportionment of House seats. The California reaction to the inclusion of a question regarding citizenship in the next census was one of projected outrage, and you should be able to guess why California would be violently opposed to it. California has been allocated excessive seats in the House of Representative, and they will fight anything which may reduce their unfair representation. Not only should there be a question about citizenship on the census form, but there should also be some valid confirmation that those claiming to be citizens actually are citizens before including them in the calculation of seats in the House of Representatives.  

In addition to the excessive seats in the House of Representatives, California also receives excessive federal funds from the Federal government based on counting the illegal aliens as if they are citizens. This is little more than thievery on the part of California, and you can bet that they will react violently to any effort to reduce the excessive amount of any federal funding they receive.