Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and Attorneys General from Louisiana, Ohio, and West Virginia filed a lawsuit against the Biden Administration in Louisiana District Court to stop the U. S. Census Bureau from counting illegal immigrants for reapportionment purposes in 2030. Kobach says it’s a national embarrassment that the most powerful country in the world does not know how many citizens it has and has not known for decades. Because the federal government has been counting illegal immigrants in the census, he says California has many more congressional seats and electoral votes than it should. This lawsuit will restore the Founding Fathers’ original vision of the United States.
According to the lawsuit, the U. S. Census Bureau’s existing residence rule unlawfully requires counting illegal immigrants and nonimmigrant aliens in the apportionment base used for assigning seats in the U. S. House of Representatives and the Electoral College.
Ohio and West Virginia each lost a congressional seat and an electoral vote to states with higher illegal immigrant populations in the 2020 census, according to the complaint. The suit also warns that Kansas and Louisiana will likely lose congressional seats and electoral votes in the 2030 census because of the unlawful residence rule.
