How Biden’s Census Favored Illegal Immigrants, And Why It’s Time To Fix It

We already know that Joe Biden and his administration put America last. They allowed millions of illegal immigrants to pour over our border and let inflation run wild.

What is less known is how the Biden Administration manipulated data from the 2020 Census for the benefit of illegal immigrants to the detriment of Americans. 

The Biden administration was tasked with interpreting and publishing the results of the 2020 Census. To do this, the Census Bureau used a shady new privacy “formula” called “differential privacy” to manipulate raw data. This formula purposely inserts false demographic data into individual voting districts (called blocks for census purposes) in order to make it impossible to guess individual residents’ identities within a census block.

The new methodology scrambled the populations of states and voting districts and deceived voters about the demographics of their own districts. led to an error in populations counts. Sure enough, by the Biden Administration’s own admission, the 2020 Census dramatically miscounted the population in fourteen states. Only Republican states were undercounted, and only Democrat states were overcounted.

If each state’s population was accurately reported by the 2020 Census, then Florida would have had two additional Congressional seats, Texas would have had one additional seat, and Minnesota, Rhode Island and Colorado all would have had one fewer member of Congress.

This clearly has massive political implications. The Biden Administration effectively cooked the books to make it easier for a Democrat to win the White House. If the 2020 Census was accurate, a Republican could win office by simply winning the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina, with no need to win either Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Wisconsin.

These mistakes also meant that Americans went without the representation they rightly deserve. The error becomes grave when one considers that our founding fathers fought a revolution over the need for proper representation in government.

Even more aggravating is that differential privacy was adopted in part because it protects and empowers illegal aliens. John Abowd, one of the Census officials who architected differential privacy, defended the method as a way to shield illegal aliens.

Put simply: the Biden Administration bent over backwards to help illegals in a way that watered down the representation Americans deserve.

This must be resolved.

I sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Monday asking the Department of Commerce and the Census Bureau to correct these errors and publish the original, untampered 2020 census data so that states can fully understand the apportionment errors that resulted from Biden’s cooked reports.

I’m confident that Secretary Lutnick will solve this and ensure that the Census Bureau abandons this flawed methodology. That these errors happened in the first place is an embarrassment. The 2010 census had no similar miscount.

Furthermore, it is crucial that the Census Bureau take steps to ensure that the 2030 Census does not allocate political power to illegal aliens. A procedural ruling from the Supreme Court stopped the 2020 Census from requesting citizenship status, but I believe that President Trump’s attempts to exclude illegal aliens from the census are an appropriate exercise of his duties to protect and defend the Constitution and enforce federal law. Counting illegal aliens as part of a state’s population means that states with more illegal aliens get more government funding and more voting power. This creates a perverse incentive structure that benefits sanctuary states and sanctuary cities.

Research from the Center for Immigration Studies shows that illegal immigrants captured in the 2020 Census redistributed 2 congressional seats and that the illegal immigrant population could redistribute up to 7 seats by 2030. This is unacceptable.

We used to be able to quickly build bridges in this country and accurately conduct a census. The government must be able to conduct the basic tasks that citizens rely on.

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U.S. Senator Jim Banks represents the state of Indiana. He serves on the Armed Services Committee, the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.

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