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A republican demand to limit people in the United States illegally from the census count will be harmful, voters say

A republican demand to limit people in the United States illegally from the census count will be harmful, voters say

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Mike Schneider
| Associated press

Voters in California and Texas affiliated with a Democratic group want to intervene in a lawsuit filed by four Republican General Prosecutors of the State that tries to exclude people in the United States illegally from the numbers used to divide the seats of Congress between the states.

The five voters said in a motion on Monday that the demand of the State Attorney General would damage them by removing the representation of Congress and the electoral university votes of their states.

The lawsuit filed more than a week by the general prosecutors of the Republican Party of Kansas, Louisiana, Ohio and West Virginia seeks to exclude people in the country illegally or temporarily from the numbers used to distribute seats in Congress after each Census once to a decade.

The amendment establishes that “the integer of people in each state” should be considered for the numbers used for distribution, the process of assigning seats in Congress and electoral university votes between the states, based on the population.

California and Texas voters said in their motion that amendment 14 was “as clear as” that the distribution should be based on the count of all residents.

During his first term, President Donald Trump signed an order that would have excluded people in the United States illegally from being included in the 2020 census numbers used to assign seats in Congress. A second order demanded the collection of citizenship data through administrative records. An expert in redistribution of Republican districts had written that the use of the population of the citizen voting age instead of the total population with the purpose of re -drawing the districts of the congress and legislative could be advantageous for Republicans and whites not Hispanics

Trump issued the orders after the United States Supreme Court blocked its previous attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census questionnaire

Both Trump orders were terminated when President Joe Biden arrived at the White House in January 2021, before the United States Census Office published the 2020 figures. Trump terminated the Biden order last week at the beginning of His second mandate, which indicates the possibility of an impulse of his new administration to change the 2030 census.

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