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California would be the biggest winner in the sanctuary vote scam, as it would gain 11 more congressional seats due to immigrants and their young children being counted in the census.
President Trump is once again pushing to exclude illegal aliens from the census count used to determine congressional representation and Electoral College votes.
On January 20, 2025, he rescinded a Biden-era executive order that had mandated counting all residents regardless of immigration status, signaling his intent to revisit the policy. The president argues that including undocumented immigrants dilutes the political power of U.S. citizens and amounts to a form of voter suppression.
Liberal states are already mobilizing resistance, as they did during Trump’s first term when challengers led by New York, along with cities, counties, and immigrant rights groups, argued that Trump’s move could leave several million people uncounted and cause California, Texas and New Jersey to lose House seats.
New York Attorney General Letitia James accused Trump of trying to “punish states that are immigrant-rich” and “transfer power from those states that have significant number of immigrants to those that do not”, with groups including the ACLU immediately filing lawsuits arguing the policy violates the Constitution and federal law.
The scale of sanctuary jurisdictions protecting illegal aliens is staggering. The Center for Immigration Studies identifies 13 sanctuary states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Washington, along with 220 sanctuary cities and counties across the United States.
(…) This represents a massive transfer of political power from states that enforce immigration law to sanctuary jurisdictions that actively shield illegal aliens. The census scam allows sanctuary states and cities to artificially inflate their political representation while law-abiding states lose congressional seats and electoral votes they rightfully deserve based on their citizen populations. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 7/2/2025) (Archive)