Why should illegals have political representation?
No clue how the court will respond, but it's an easy enough question.
U.S. Supreme Court to hear Trump bid to exclude illegal immigrants from representation
Why? Because that's what the Constitution call for.
The U.S. Constitution empowers the Congress to carry out the census in "such manner as they shall by Law direct" (Article I, Section 2). The Founders of our fledgling nation had a bold and ambitious plan to empower the people over their new government. The plan was to count every person living in the newly created United States of America, and to use that count to determine representation in the Congress.
Census in the Constitution.
A census counter is completely unable to determine who is here legally or not at that. This is just another case where the government tries to blame others for it's failures.
Technically, it calls for the enumeration of "the whole Number of free Persons". At that time of writing there was no immigration law as there was no reason to have any.
Illegal aliens are not "free" but only "free-roaming", no different than a burglar who enters your house.
There is no logic in giving Congressional representation to foreign entities.
People will argue that there were no semi-automatic weapons back then either so banning them is OK.
None of it is OK. Besides, they are not foreign entities. They are people here processing our food. Caring for our children. Taking care of our lawns,
They are
criminals. They broke the law and entered this country illegally.
That's why we call them "
illegals."
So? Those employing them are breaking the law also. Should we exclude them also? And if so, how do we go about doing this?
No, those hiring them are American citizens who can vote, and therefore should be counted in the census.
But illegals are
criminals, and are not entitled to the full benefits the US Constitution bequeaths on real American citizens.
If illegals weren't
criminals and truly were dindu nuffins, they wouldn't be arrested for being
criminals, as ICE did yesterday. ICE arrested more than 170 of the
criminals in several "sanctuary cities" yesterday.
ICE sweeps through D.C., other sanctuary cities; more than 170 arrests
That's 170
criminals who won't be illegally voting for Joe Biden.