The U.S. census is mandated by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, which states: “Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States… according to their respective Numbers… . The actual Enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years”. Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment amended Article I, Section 2 to include that the “respective Numbers” of the “several States” will be determined by “counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.” ….
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The US Census count will be done again in 2030…..
New York City IS gearing up to count as many people as it can after seeing undercounts and the loss of population that has been migrating to Southern and MidWesten states….
By the Constitution …..
The count IS to include ‘the whole number of persons’ in each state….(It don’t say legal or NOT)
The numbers from the survey will be used to appoint members of the US House and to disperse Federald funding….
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A coalition of elected officials, community activists, and labor and civic leaders in New York City is already stirring ahead of the next census in 2030 amid a brewing battle over whether to include noncitizens in the population count.
These allies came together for the last census, in 2020, running phone banks and flooding social media, to reach more New Yorkers at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
Now they are beginning to mobilize again — this time over what they see as threats from the Trump administration and the Republican-led Congress to exclude noncitizens, which could lead to a significant undercount of the city’s population.
“I have to say it feels like I’m at a census reunion,” said Councilwoman Julie Menin, a Democrat from Manhattan’s East Side, as she welcomed about 150 people at an April gathering at New York Law School in Lower Manhattan.
Though the population of New York State reached 20.2 million in 2020 — buoyed by the growth of its largest city to a record 8.8 million — it has steadily lost ground for decades to faster-growing states, like Florida and Texas, in the southern and western parts of the United States.
One result of that is the state’s shrinking congressional delegation, which has dropped to 26 representatives from 45 in the 1940s.
Now there is growing alarm over the Trump administration’s immigration raids and over a renewed push by Republican lawmakers to require the census to ask respondents whether they are U.S. citizens and to exclude noncitizens from counts used to apportion congressional seats.
More than 4.5 million migrants live in New York State, about 23.1 percent of its total population, according to a breakdown of 2023 census data from the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. Of those 4.5 million, about 1.8 million are noncitizens.
Jeffrey M. Wice, a census expert and adjunct professor at New York Law School, said that the state already stood to lose two more congressional seats based on current population estimates and could lose even more if noncitizens were excluded from the counts….
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Of cvourse states like Florida and Texas should be doing the same thing as New York due to their numbers of ‘non’ citizens’ also eh?
Concerns of this may fade if Democrats make inroads in Congress and a Democratic Prersident is elected in 2028….
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