GOP bill adding citizenship question to 2030 census passes House without a single Democrat

The House of Representatives passed a measure Wednesday evening to adhd a citizenship question to the adjacent U.S. census, with zero Democrats voting successful favor.

"If you are an amerciable immigrant, you should not beryllium represented successful the U.S. Congress," House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., told Fox News Digital aft the vote. "It’s a shame that House Democrats are allowing their open-borders docket to get successful the mode of communal sense."

The authorities is called the Equal Representation Act, led by Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C. In summation to including a question connected citizenship presumption connected the census, the measure would besides exclude non-citizens from the colonisation number erstwhile factoring however galore lawmakers successful the House of Representatives each authorities gets, arsenic good arsenic the fig of electors for each 50 states.

It passed on enactment lines with 206 Republicans successful favour and 202 Democrats against.

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House Republicans accidental the census question is indispensable owed to the fig of amerciable immigrants who person travel to the U.S. connected President Biden's watch. (Photo by Randee Daddona/Newsday RM via Getty Images/Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

"Though commonsense dictates that lone citizens should beryllium counted for apportionment purposes, illegal aliens have nevertheless precocious been counted toward the last tallies that find however galore House seats each authorities is allocated and the fig of electoral votes it volition wield successful statesmanlike elections," Edwards said during statement connected the bill. "And since the amerciable alien colonisation is not evenly distributed passim the nation, American citizens successful immoderate states are losing practice successful Congress to amerciable aliens successful different states."

There was immoderate uncertainty implicit whether the measure would walk fixed near-uniform absorption from Democrats arsenic good arsenic immoderate Republicans.

Two House GOP aides told Fox News Digital earlier Wednesday that Republican lawmakers successful New York and California, arsenic good arsenic respective different constitution GOP members had reservations astir the bill.

And Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., tin spend precious small dissent, overseeing conscionable a one-seat bulk successful the House. 

A bulk of House Republicans enactment the bill, however, citing the grounds levels of amerciable immigrants who person travel to the U.S. nether President Biden's tenure.

Including a citizenship question connected the U.S. census is not a caller idea, nevertheless – erstwhile President Trump tried to person it added earlier the 2020 census, but it was blocked by the Supreme Court.

One of the Democrats speaking retired against the measure up of the Wednesday ballot was Rep. Nanette Barragan, D-Calif., seat of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

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Rep. Nanette Barragan was among the Democrats who spoke retired against the bill. (Getty Images)

"This request would deprive tens of millions of immigrants their close to representation," Barragan said, adding it would person a "chilling effect connected information successful the census."

"Its accuracy would beryllium destroyed," she said.

Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., a protagonist of the bill, argued it would not negate the census' intended intent of counting everyone successful the U.S.

"While this measure volition proceed to number each idiosyncratic successful the United States, it adds a elemental question – are you a United States citizen?" Higgins posed. "The occupation is the level of amerciable persons who present unrecorded successful our state due to the fact that of President Biden's nonaccomplishment astatine the confederate border."

A New York Republican successful favour of the bill, Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-N.Y., said connected the House floor, "We're talking millions of radical who are not American citizens having a large accidental successful American elections."

Another lawmaker supporting the bill, Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., accused Democrats of opposing the measure due to the fact that it would negatively interaction their powerfulness successful Congress.

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Rep. Tim Burchett accused Democrats of opposing the measure due to the fact that helium argued it benefits them to reason it. (Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)

"You could spot wherefore my Democratic colleagues would person a occupation with this bill. Factoring amerciable aliens into the process skews things successful their favor," Burchett said. "If the census does not see the citizenship question, states with much amerciable aliens volition get much legislature districts and much electoral assemblage votes."

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Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the apical Democrat connected the House Oversight Committee, argued against the bill, "I'm for a full batch much lawful migration to America, little unlawful migration to America…and a batch little demagoguery astir who we are arsenic a country."

He aboriginal added, "One should beryllium wide that nether this legislation, they're roping retired of reapportionment not conscionable undocumented people, they're roping retired imperishable residents…they're talking astir disenfranchising from the reapportionment process, millions of radical who are lawfully [in the U.S.]."