Takeaways
  1. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach joined a lawsuit because Kansas is likely to lose congressional representation to states with larger noncitizen populations.
  2. Advocates say the census count needs to be as accurate as possible. Not counting noncitizens would be a mistake, they warn.
  3. Ohio, West Virginia and Louisiana have also joined the lawsuit.
  • Cort@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    And I’m saying it’s NOT reasonable to only count citizens.

    Since you’re curious, in 2022 Texas had 3 million non citizen legal permanent residents (green card holders) that’s about twice as many as the number of people immigrating illegally.

    All the green card holders came here legally and followed all the rules, but you’re wanting to force them to have taxation without representation? That’s fucking absurd and un-american.

    • hypna@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Neither illegal immigrants, nor non-citizen residents get to vote. In what sense are they represented in either case?

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        1 day ago

        Neither do children, and yet they’re still taxed. And non citizens do get to vote in some elections.

        To actually answer your question tho, they vote with their feet. If the representative in their area isn’t doing what they want, they can move which reduces the population count for apportionment. Your proposal removes that little bit of leverage legal immigrants have to affect change.