4/24/2019
- Michelle Malkin
"Are you a U.S. citizen?"
Only in self-defeating, sovereignty-eroding America is the
idea of asking whether people living in America are American citizens for the
American census a matter of controversy.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on
whether the Trump administration can include a citizenship question on the
high-stakes 2020 Census questionnaire. Thank goodness, the conservative
majority indicated support for allowing it. There's already such a question on
the annual American Community Survey administered by the Census Bureau. It was
asked in long-form questionnaires sent to a sample of households in 2000. And
it was regularly asked in historical census forms from 1820-1950.
But we live in a Trump-deranged age, so now it's tantamount
to an international human rights crime to ask anyone about citizenship status
at any time for any reason. Heaven forbid we inconvenience or discomfit legal
noncitizens or illegal immigrants with a question!
Open borders activists, left-wing immigration lawyers and
identity politics radicals exploded on cue:
--Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder decried the
"unconstitutional and irresponsible action" to "suppress the
count in minority communities."
--The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee fumed about
the "political stunt that unfairly targets immigrant communities
throughout our country in an attempt to SILENCE immigrants and benefit
Republicans."
--Histrionic social justice actress Alyssa Milano called it
an "attack on immigrant communities and our democracy itself."
--Jorge Luis Vasquez Jr. of LatinoJustice, funded by George
Soros' Open Society Foundations, vented that a citizenship question would
"damage all our daily lives for decades."
--Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers' Committee for
Civil Rights Under Law, another Soros-funded outfit, which sued over the
citizenship question, blasted the "scheme to hijack the 2020 Census."
--The Soros-funded Asian Americans Advancing Justice
lobbying group condemned Trump as "racially and politically
motivated."
Let's all practice our deep pranayama breathing and ground
ourselves in reality. It's the radical left, much of it fueled with Soros'
money, that has hijacked the U.S. Census, not President Donald Trump. "No
Illegal Immigrant Left Behind" is crucial to their strategy. Why?
Remember: The Census is used to divvy up seats in the House
as a proportion of their population based on the head count. The redistribution
of power extends to presidential elections because the Electoral College is
pegged to the size of congressional delegations. More people equal more seats.
More illegal immigrants equal more power. Indeed, the Center for Immigration
Studies determined that in the 2000 election cycle, the presence of noncitizens
(illegal immigrants, temporary visitors and green card holders) caused nine
seats in the House to switch hands. California added six seats it would not have
had otherwise. Texas, New York and Florida each gained a seat. Indiana,
Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin each lost a seat.
Montana, Kentucky and Utah each failed to secure a seat they would otherwise
have gained.
Our Founding Fathers explicitly warned against the perils of
foreigners manipulating representation by overwhelming the country. Immigration
scholar and author Daniel Horowitz points to Supreme Court Justice Joseph
Story's prophetic admonition: "If aliens might be admitted
indiscriminately to enjoy all the rights of citizens at the will of a single
state, the Union might itself be endangered by an influx of foreigners, hostile
to its institutions, ignorant of its powers, and incapable of a due estimate of
its privileges."
Statesman Roger Sherman similarly emphasized the need to
"guard against an improper mode of naturalization" by states adopting
"easier terms."
Too late. Multiple illegal immigrant amnesties, coupled with
massive legal immigration, failure to deport visa overstayers and the
metastasis of sanctuary policies, have taken their toll. Moreover, our
constitutionally mandated decennial count has become a full-employment program
for ideologically driven liberal interest groups cashing in on the
census-gathering process and reshaping the electoral landscape. During the last
census under President Barack Obama, with $300 billion in federal funding at
stake, social justice groups from Soros-funded ACORN to Soros-funded Voto
Latino to the Soros-allied SEIU were enlisted to count heads and help
noncitizens feel "safe."
The Census boondoggle has become a tax-subsidized national
future Democratic voter outreach drive. Soros' operations, along with 77 other
liberal foundations, have invested $30 million to make illegal immigrants
count. The Open Society Institute's grantees and partners on coopting the
Census for Democrat gains include the Southern Coalition for Social Justice,
Miami Workers Center, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund,
Southwest Workers Union, New York Community Trust, New York Foundation, Center
for American Progress, People for the American Way and the Funders Census
Initiative. A recently leaked internal board document revealed that the Soros
network has coordinated efforts for the past four years to "influence
appropriations for the Census Bureau" and add new racial and ethnic
categories.
The Census Bureau will need 500,000 temporary workers to
conduct the count in what will already be a hyperpolarized election year.
However the Supreme Court rules on the citizenship question, the Trump
administration must ensure that Open Borders Inc. does not co-opt the
enumerator corps. As SorosWorld well understands:
Power lies not just with who is being counted, but who's
doing the counting.
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