How Democrats game the census for power

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Washington Examiner

How Democrats game the census for power
by Hugo Gurdon
Feb 3, 2026

At the 68th Grammy Awards, a day before Groundhog Day, singer Billie Eilish spied her shadow in a spotlight beam and predicted endless Hollywood posturing on illegal immigration.

“No one is illegal on stolen land,” Eilish said, offering a neat epigrammatic falsehood about the United States that is catching on.
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The singer and the beautiful boneheads who nodded their approval in Los Angeles on Sunday are motivated by vapid ignorance and ideology, but others are motivated differently. They arrive at the same place by cold calculation instead. They oppose deporting those here illegally because these schemers know that illegal immigrants help Democrats win elections.
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It does not require even a single illegal immigrant to cast a vote for this to be true. Every person living in the U.S., citizen or noncitizen, legal or illegal, is counted in the census every 10 years. The census determines how many seats each state has in the House of Representatives, how many federal dollars flow to each state, and how many votes it will cast in the Electoral College, which decides the presidency.
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On average, one House member on Capitol Hill represents 761,000 people. So California, a sanctuary state with more than 3 million illegal residents, gets four more seats in the House and in the Electoral College than it would if illegal immigrants were excluded from the census. New York has 868,000 illegal immigrants, while Illinois and New Jersey have more than half a million each.

States run by Democrats can be expected to lose 10 House seats after the 2030 Census, four in California, two in New York, and one apiece in five other states, including three that are sanctuary states. They are losing seats not directly because they are sanctuaries, but because residents are fleeing to better-run states — ones with lower taxes, yet better services and law and order.

Some states seeing net immigration from other states, such as Texas and Florida, also have many illegal immigrants. But these states are run by Republicans who cooperate with federal agencies by handing over criminal illegal immigrants for deportation. They are not, in other words, gaming the system, often violently, to keep their grip on more sway in Washington and more tax dollars.

From 1820 to 1950, the census included a question asking whether the respondent was a citizen. Then the question was dropped for more than half a century. President Donald Trump proposed in 2018 that it be added back again in 2020, but Democrats went to court complaining that it would discourage immigrants from answering questions.

Now, a bill from Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC), the Equal Representation Act, would restore the citizenship question and deduct non-citizens from state totals to determine House seats and Electoral College votes. The legislation has passed out of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee and is awaiting a vote on the House floor. Even if it passes there, it will probably go to die in the Senate, where Democrats will filibuster it.

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