By Beth Brelje | The Federalist
The U.S. Census Bureau will now count refugees and border releases in its population estimates, a move that will affect congressional apportionment and demographic data. In a blog post Thursday announcing the change, the bureau noted, “a net of 2.8 million people migrated to the United States between 2023 and 2024. This is significantly higher than our previous estimates.”
The data offers a glimpse of how congressional apportionment maps could change by 2030. It also shows how, as U.S. citizens flee states with garbage leftist policies, the inclusion of noncitizens in census data allows those states to keep congressional seats because their population is propped up by illegal aliens.
Every 10 years, shortly after the census, the congressional apportionment process divides the 435 congressional seats among the 50 states, based on population. The more people in your state, the more members of Congress. Based on the 2020 census, California sends 52 representatives to the House; North Dakota sends one.