White House ‘strongly opposes’ GOP push to stop non-citizens being counted on census

The White House says it "strongly opposes" a legislature effort to enactment a citizenship question connected the census to forestall non-citizens being counted for legislature apportionment -- informing that it would beryllium costly and "make it much hard to get close data."

The Equal Representation Act has been introduced successful the House and Senate and would necessitate a citizenship question to beryllium enactment connected the decennial census asking whether the responsive is simply a citizen, a nonmigratory non-citizen oregon an amerciable immigrant. The House was owed to ballot connected the measure aboriginal Wednesday.

The measure would past necessitate that the census not number those who are non-citizens for the apportionment of legislature districts. Currently, everyone who participates successful the census, including nonmigratory non-citizens and illegal immigrants, is counted for redistricting.

SENATE BILL WOULD PUT CITIZENSHIP QUESTION ON CENSUS, STOP NON-CITIZENS BEING COUNTED FOR REDISTRICTING

The White House is photographed from Lafayette Park connected Wednesday, May 1, 2024, successful Washington.  (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

The measure would use to the census conducted successful 2030 and comes amid concerns from Republicans that Democrats volition payment from the historical migrant situation astatine the confederate borderline that has surged migrants into the U.S. and crossed the state -- including successful bluish cities and states similar Chicago, New York and California.

But the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said successful a connection this week that it ‘strongly opposes" the measure "which would preclude the Department of Commerce’s Census Bureau from performing its constitutionally mandated work to number the fig of persons successful the United States successful the decennial census." 

"[The bill] would summation the outgo of conducting the census and marque it much hard to get close data," the connection said. "It would besides interruption the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which requires that the fig of seats successful the House of Representatives ‘be apportioned among the respective States according to their respective numbers, counting the full fig of persons successful each State...,’" it read. 

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The briefcase of a census taker is seen arsenic she knocks connected the doorway of a residence, Aug. 11, 2020, successful Winter Park, Fla.  (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Republicans who had introduced the authorities successful some chambers had argued alternatively that the measure would forestall U.S. votes being diluted by amerciable immigrants.

"It is unconscionable that amerciable immigrants and non-citizens are counted toward legislature territory apportionment and our electoral map," Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., said successful January. "While radical proceed to fly Democrat-run cities, hopeless Democrats are back-filling the wide exodus with illegal immigrants truthful that they bash not suffer their seats successful Congress oregon their electoral votes for the presidency, hence artificially boosting their governmental powerfulness and successful crook diluting the powerfulness of different Americans’ votes."

"Incentivizing amerciable migration and exploiting our ideology to skew the fig of legislature seats oregon electoral votes for the presidency is immoral and a definite way to the downfall of our nation. Only American citizens tin vote, and lone American citizens should beryllium counted erstwhile determining national representation," Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., who introduced the measure successful the House, said.

The measure represents 1 of a fig of measures introduced by Republicans to tackle what they fearfulness could beryllium the electoral consequences of the historical situation astatine the border, which saw much than 2.4 cardinal migrant encounters successful FY 24, alone.

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On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson led a property league to present authorities projected by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, that would necessitate impervious of U.S. citizenship successful bid to beryllium capable to registry to ballot successful national elections. 

Get the latest updates connected the ongoing borderline situation from the Fox News Digital migration hub.