‘Equal Representation’ Should Mean Equal Representation for American Citizens:
Restoring a citizenship question to the U.S. Census would help rectify imbalances in congressional representation.
The census is more than a constitutionally required population count. It determines how federal funds are distributed and how states are represented in Congress and state governments, and it can even influence who becomes president for most of the next decade.
The Equal Representation Act, which passed the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in December, is designed to ensure the 2030 Census accurately counts everyone living in the United States while preventing noncitizens from distorting federal funding, congressional representation, and electoral votes. The bill is expected to come before the full House for a vote early this year.
The Equal Representation Act would restore a citizenship question — asking whether or not a person is a U.S. citizen — to both the short- and long-form census questionnaires in 2030. These questions were included on the short form until 1950 and on the long form until 2000. Noncitizens would still be counted to measure the total population, but they could be excluded when determining political representation.
According to estimates from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), nearly 32 million noncitizens live in the United States, including both legal and illegal residents. Based on the 2020 Census formula of one House seat per 761,169 people, that population equals about 41 congressional districts. A separate 2025 report from FAIR estimates the illegal alien population at 18.6 million, or roughly 24
Because noncitizens are concentrated in certain states, their growing numbers shift political representation and federal funding away from some American citizens and toward others. This shift is especially troubling when it results from record numbers of people who are in the country illegally. --->READ MORE HERE (or HERE)
New FAIR Study Finds Illegal Alien Population Hits Record 18.6 Million
In a brand new report, FAIR estimates that, at the beginning of 2025, the illegal alien population living in the United States now stands at 18.6 million. This marks the highest ever population of illegal aliens in the U.S., a figure twice as large as New York City. The number of illegal aliens living in the U.S. grew by at least 28 percent (more than 4 million people) since December 2020, which, through open-borders policies, invited migrants from all over the world to our borders and released them upon entry.
FAIR’s new estimate reflects a quiet but significant change in the official Census Bureau data. In December 2024, the Bureau announced via a blog post that it had previously missed nearly 2 million foreign nationals who had migrated to the U.S. between mid-2021 and mid-2023. The Bureau also logged an increase of 2.8 million migrants who arrived between mid-2023 and mid-2024. In each year, most of these were classified as “humanitarian migrants.” It turns out, the Biden administration was letting in these migrants (mostly illegal aliens) so quickly that the Census Bureau simply couldn’t count them using its traditional methods.
At the same time, the Census Bureau revised its official count of the foreign-born population upward, it adjusted its methodology for future population estimates to capture this new growth. This change only confirms what FAIR has noted for years: that the illegal alien population has grown rapidly, and this growth was being missed or ignored by open-borders politicians and the mainstream media.
Most estimates of illegal immigration have stayed stagnant at around 11 million for over a decade, despite ample evidence to the contrary – even official statistics from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. These estimates were generally based on Census Bureau data from before this revision and (unlike FAIR’s estimates) did not fully account for how many illegal aliens the Census Bureau missed. It is clear that the illegal alien population has grown at a breakneck pace over the past four years. --->READ MORE HERE
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