WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Warren Davidson released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked a citizenship question from being added to the 2020 census.
 
“Apportionment of congressional representatives and electoral votes should not be determined by counting non-citizens and illegal aliens in the census. Shockingly, including non-citizens is current practice.
 
“The Supreme Court’s decision in Department of Commerce v. New York does not rule out asking the citizenship question, but it does create an unfortunate delay. Time is short, but hopefully, a sufficient record can be established to still go forward with the critically important question in the census."
 
Congressman Davidson is the sponsor of the Fair Representation Amendment (H.J.Res.34). The proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution would eliminate the practice of using the non-citizen population for apportionment of congressional representatives.
 
Currently, the census counts everyone residing in the U.S., including illegal aliens. These numbers determine not only how many seats are apportioned per state in the House of Representatives—and consequently, electoral votes per state—but also how billions of dollars in tax revenue are distributed. As a result, states with large illegal populations hold undue influence in our nation’s law-making process.
 
Read the text of the Fair Representation Amendment here.