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Americans overwhelmingly believe congressional seats should be distributed solely based on the number of U.S. citizens in each state.

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Americans overwhelmingly believe congressional seats should be distributed solely based on the number of U.S. citizens in each state. They also think there should be a citizenship question on the census.

Those are two of the key findings in a new survey, obtained exclusively by The Federalist, indicating significant public support for policies — long opposed by the left — that the Trump administration is pursuing pertaining to the crucial decennial count.

The survey, conducted by McLaughlin & Associates on Sept. 23, shows that of 1,000 likely voters, nearly two-thirds, 65 percent, believe the congressional apportionment base should be comprised solely of U.S. citizens.

Strikingly, not only four in five self-identified Republicans, but also 54 percent of Democrats and nearly 60 percent of independents polled also somewhat or strongly agree with a policy that would necessarily exclude illegal aliens and other noncitizens from the count.

The poll also found that 75 percent of likely voters, including nearly two-thirds of Democrats, somewhat or strongly agree that census respondents should disclose whether they are U.S. citizens on the census form. Such a query could be used to facilitate efforts to exclude noncitizens from the apportionment base.

Current Policy Counts Non-Citizens

These findings come days after the Commerce Department, under which the Census Bureau sits, proposed a rule to exclude all but U.S. citizens and green card holders from the population numbers used to distribute congressional seats. That rule would modify the Census Bureau’s “residence criteria,” under which past administrations had distorted the apportionment base by counting “residents” of each state irrespective of their immigration status........

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