Jack of Harts

An interesting epilogue to my long series on mass migrations, that you can find in my previous postings, is representation. The United States runs a census every ten years, and it counts all Persons living in it, and it grants representation to each State based on the total count of all Persons, except those who are bound to another polity, like ambassadors, or people who are here on a temporary basis such as with a visa.

In practice, the census counts illegal aliens, just as it used to count 3/5ths of each Slave for representation before Slavery was outlawed. The slaves couldn’t vote, but the slave owners wouldn’t sign the Constitution if they didn’t get to count them for purposes of them getting representatives. It was a way for the slave owners to get more power in the US House, and in Presidential elections, without them needing to actually get the people they were representing to vote for them. It was a perfect little scam. The Democrats lost that when Republicans took their slaves away, but through the KKK and then literacy tests and grandfather rules and poll taxes they continued to push for the same representation boost, while hindering the former slaves’ ability to vote.

Today the Democrats want illegal aliens in their States for the same reason. The more illegal aliens in their States, the more illegal aliens that are counted by the census for representation purposes, the more representatives and more power they get in the federal government. That is why the Democrats oppose deporting the illegal aliens, and why they oppose not counting illegal aliens in the census. It is a pure power grab. They want to use the illegal aliens the same way they used their slaves back in the day. First, to harvest their crops as they say again and again in interviews. But also to get them more power in the Federal government through more representatives. And in some States, they even register them to vote so they can vote for them as an extra little bonus.

This boost in representation is one of the reasons that Democrats support illegal immigration. And the amount of representation it would cost them if these illegal aliens are deported or not counted in the census is why they fight both like their political lives depend on it. Because if they lose tens of millions of People counted in their States, that will slash their representatives in the US government by a politically catastrophic amount.