re: Should Illegal Aliens count towards congressional representation?

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To be sure the danger of including illegals when apportioning is that even if they can't vote

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But this is the ultimate goal of the DEMOCRAT party - you can be sure that this mythological "comprehensive immigration reform" ideal that the DEMs always point toward contains some "pathway to citizenship" for all illegals. There is nothing else that explains their insane intransigence on this issue.

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they certainly can have influence over those Representatives and then you end up with de-facto foreign Representatives.

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This is their temporary fall-back position.

I'd like to see some good ol' fashioned "Judicial Activism" here where we go back and define "persons" with the qualifier of "legally in residence" - otherwise we would have to count an invading army in our representation if they attacked us during a census year.

The concept of "here legally" was not really much of a consideration during the founding - since everyone was here by just walking or floating in. Nothing like an invasion of foreign born anti-American masses was - or could be - contemplated.

If the SCOTUS can find an umbra from a penumbra emanating from some non-existent, but presumed, "right to privacy" in order to legalize the murder of unborn babies for the convenience of a promiscuous mother, surely it could find an equally plausible "legal residency" requirement for the purpose of determining congressional apportionment.

but that might hurt someone's feelings.