Chip Roy Slams 2020 Census as 'Sanctuary Census' Costing GOP Seats

Constitutional Mandate and Democratic Pillars

• 📜 The Constitution mandates an actual enumeration of the American people every 10 years, forming a core pillar of democracy.
• 🎯 The census determines congressional representation, electoral votes, district lines, and federal funding allocation.
• ⚠️ The speaker argues the 2020 Census failed its primary task of getting the count right.

The 'Sanctuary Census' Argument

• ⚖️ The 2020 Census is criticized for unconstitutionally prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens in apportionment.
• 🏛️ This practice allegedly rewards states with illegal immigrants with more congressional seats, electoral votes, and federal tax dollars.
• 📈 A study suggests that if seats were based on citizens only, Republican states would gain 10-12 seats, while illegal aliens and non-citizens currently account for at least 10 seats.

Undermining 'One Person, One Vote'

• 🗳️ Counting illegal aliens in the apportionment base violates the one person, one vote principle by diluting the voting power of citizens.
• 📊 Voters in districts with illegal aliens have a stronger say than those in districts without them, creating unequal representation.

Inaccurate Counting and Differential Privacy

• 📉 The Census Bureau also failed to accurately count the legal population, undercounting six states (five predominantly Republican) and overcounting eight states (seven predominantly Democratic).
• 📌 These errors, unprecedented in recent history, are estimated to have cost Republicans six House seats.
• 🔒 The use of differential privacy to scramble data makes these errors impossible to correct without a new census, a technique criticized for artificially reducing heterogeneity.

Call to Action

• 📢 Congress must act to ensure illegal aliens are not counted for apportionment purposes.
• ✅ The goal is to follow the Constitution, stop encouraging illegal immigration, prevent the census from being weaponized for political gain, and improve census procedures through bipartisan agreement.
• 🇺🇸 The census should ultimately be representative of the American people.