Commentary
Hans Von Spakorski, Heritage Foundation
Hans von Spakovsky is the manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
The inclusion of aliens, legal or illegal, in the population used for apportionment of the U.S. House of Representatives and for redistricting (i.e., drawing new boundary lines for congressional, state legislative, and local city council and county commission offices) unfairly dilutes the votes of U.S. citizens and distorts their representation and political power within legislative bodies.
States should start conducting their own censuses and use citizen-only population in all redistricting.
Only Congress can fix the apportionment problem, and both President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress already attempted to do that.
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