Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) says the counting of illegal aliens when dividing up congressional seats and electoral college votes is a violation of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Brooks, along with the state of Alabama, are suing the federal government for their counting of illegal aliens, rather than citizens, in congressional apportionment and the dividing up of electoral college votes.
In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot Channel’s Breitbart News Saturday, Brooks revealed that should the Congress continue dividing up congressional seats and electoral college votes based on all persons in each district—including illegal aliens—rather than the number of American citizens, that the state of Alabama is set to lose a congressional seat.
Brooks said:
We’re probably in the neighborhood of about 15 million illegal aliens in America now. 15 million comes out to roughly 20 congressional seats and 20 electoral college votes. Each congressional seat has roughly 700,000 to 800,000 people in it. [Emphasis added]
So, if you count illegal aliens in the Census for the purposes of distributing political power, that’s the number of congressmen per state or … the number of electoral college votes per state, you’re talking about … 20 electoral college votes and congressmen that are taken from states that follow our laws, that help our border patrol agents, and help our ICE agents … shifting those 20 congressional seats and 20 electoral college seats to states like California that have large numbers of illegal aliens in them. [Emphasis added]
I personally believe that’s wrong, on a policy level, but I also believe it violates the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution because it dilutes the voting power of citizens who live in states that don’t harbor an enormous number of illegal aliens. [Emphasis added]
Listen to the full interview here:
As Breitbart News has reported, the counting of only American citizens to divide up congressional districts and electoral college votes would shift power away from the affluent, metropolitan coastal cities of the U.S. and towards middle America.
2020 Census: Counting Citizens Likely to Shift Power from Illegal Alien-Flooded Coasts to Middle Americahttps://t.co/ybnOBSYTp3
— John Binder ? (@JxhnBinder) July 30, 2018
For example, California has an estimated three million illegal aliens, a total of about 5.3 million noncitizens, and a total population of about 39.5 million residents. Currently, California has 53 congressional seats, the most in the country.
If California’s congressional districts were set by the number of citizens in the state, it would potentially lose three to five congressional seats, leaving the state with about 48 to 50 seats.
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Mo…..it’s worse than 15 million….try double that.
Yeah my best estimate is 33 million.
I’d take the guy more seriously if he had “I-AL” or a “Fuck You-AL” after his name instead of “R-AL”.
Funny that the left is outraged that a Russian company posted some political memes (mostly after the election) to facebook and twitter and yet aren’t the least bit bothered by millions of non-citizens actually voting.
They vote democrat….why would they be upset? If illegals voted mostly for republicans, the wall would already be 50 feet high.
When a theater has too many customers day in and day out, what do they do? If they are smart and care about their customers, they build another theater. They don’t simply kick one customer out so another can take their seat.
When a business has more business than they can effectively manage, how do they meet the needs of their customers? They expand their location or open another.
How does our supposed “Constitutional Republic” deal with more “customers?” By kicking existing customers OUT of their seats….naturally.
When our nation was founded, there were roughly 30,000 citizens for every US House member elected. When one takes into account that blacks, women, and those under 21 could not vote, in some districts, this amounted to as few as 5,000 actual voters per House member. Today, that number is anywhere from 750,000 to nearly 1,000,000 per House member. In the beginning, more seats were added to the House chamber (though ratios also increased), but in 1911, the Congress (not surprisingly, during the Progressive era that gave us the Federal Reserve, the Income tax, and so many other oppressive thing), fixed the number at 435. Since then, if one state gains, another loses, even if their population increased over the past 10 years. Even the Federalist Madison wrote about House apportionment and his concerns regarding long-term representation and apportionment issues:
“..first, that so small a number of representatives will be an unsafe depositary of the public interests; secondly, that they will not possess a proper knowledge of the local circumstances of their numerous constituents; thirdly, that they will be taken from that class of citizens which will sympathize least with the feelings of the mass of the people, and be most likely to aim at a permanent elevation of the few on the depression of the many;…”
Instead of whining over whether illegals will end up stealing seats for “blue” states, everyone should be demanding that either adequate representation be given to ALL (say, an increase in the size of the House to 10,000 to 15,000 members or so), or the so-called “union” should be broken into much smaller, more functional units (personally, I like 50 to start with 5000 as an ideal goal).
Unless there were some kind of term limits put in, that would simply create an unmanageable number of the elected class on the federal dole for life.
Fix it or we will have to fight to restore our Republic, Country and Democracy. Open borders was bad enough but an open House and Senate (via crooked voting) is a Communist-Anarchist take over; not by a Democracy but by a Leftist engineered Communist Revolution by Flooding in Communist Humans from third world Communist countries by American Fifth Column Communist traitors and subversives.
It was 15 million in the 80’s, 150 million wouldn’t be a surprise now.
Voter ID in every State and paper ballots are also going to be essential….
Take away 99% of the power the federal government now possesses, abolish the income tax, abolish the Federal Reserve, and virtually nothing Congress could do, regardless of what kind of pieces of shit infest the place, would bother anyone. But then, that is pretty much what they were shooting for when they defined the specific and limited powers of the government in the first place. Lot of good that did.
That is why I think we need to evaluate the idea of an Article V convention of the states. The founders said we would “from time to time” call these. We have never had one. It may be overdue. Likely long overdue.
Pandora’s box. Unless the citizens are ready to step up and STOP the shenanigans that will surely come of such a gathering, it shouldn’t happen. Nullification is a mechanism available to the states today, but leadership at the state level wants nothing to do with restoring sovereignty or freedom to their own state or their own citizens. Having them all come together surely won’t make it any better. The 17th Amendment that gave away state’s control of the Senate happened because the state legislatures had already caved to the Progressives and the big money interests that wanted to control these seats “for the people.” That Progressive influence, in both major parties, is more than alive and well.