Obviously they are doing this to villify immigrants and discourage participation in the census, not because they actually care about who counts for the census. Citizenship requirements are intended to scare people who are citizens but often assumed to be non-citizens from participating along with the non-citizens.
It also diminishes the political power of regions where there are more undocumented immigrants by giving them less representation in the House
Hence their congressional inaction on immigration reform since 2013.
If only they didn't keep shipping all that political power to blue states just to compete for who can be the biggest turdmonger in the south
Obviously they are doing this to villify immigrants and discourage participation in the census, not because they actually care about who counts for the census. Citizenship requirements are intended to scare people who are citizens but often assumed to be non-citizens from participating along with the non-citizens.
It also diminishes the political power of regions where there are more undocumented immigrants by giving them less representation in the House
Hence their congressional inaction on immigration reform since 2013.
If only they didn't keep shipping all that political power to blue states just to compete for who can be the biggest turdmonger in the south