When it comes to Donald Trump’s presidency, it feels like every policy position is a never-ending source of rage-inducing debate. Whether its tariff announcements and un-announcements that spark cheers or groans, foreign policy decisions that pit so-called hawks against so-called interventionists and isolationists, or anything to do with the “hoax”-addled Epstein files, it seems like the Trump administration just can’t catch a break when it comes to a winning policy.
Except for immigration.
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When it comes to immigration policy, Donald Trump is knocking it out of the park, undoing much of the generational damage of the Biden-era lunacy almost overnight by closing the border and deporting illegal immigrants across the country, earning continued support from the American public as his handling of immigration remains one of his most popular achievements.
Why? Because illegal immigration and border control have always been Donald Trump’s strongest policy platform. Why? Because Donald Trump is willing to acknowledge the fundamental realities of sovereignty that most squishy politicians refuse to even approach, lest they be accused of, gasp, racism.
Despite the cries of whatever remains of the Democratic Party and their gaggle of loyal MSNBC staffers, a policy rooted squarely in reality will always be popular, and Trump’s latest announcement that census data will soon disregard illegal immigrants is the latest move to cement reality as a central pillar in American immigration policy.
“I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024,” Trump declared on Truth Social. “People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS.”
Of course, the message concluded with one of his Hall of Fame sign-offs, “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
The fact that it’s necessary to explain why this is obviously correct tells you quite how successful the insidious anti-American immigration policy of the Democratic Party has been in recent years. The fundamental purpose of the national census is to determine the number of people living in the United States in order to decide matters of political representation and dole out billions in government funding.
Put simply, the census allows us to decide the number of representatives each state is allocated in the House of Representatives. The more people counted in each state, the more votes that state gets. And when you count illegal immigrants in the census, while they may not legally be able to vote (depending on whether their state respects basic voter safety laws), they are delivering the drug-of-choice for Democrat-run states across the country: seats in the House.
Is it any surprise that during the chaotic 2020 census—collected during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic—six of the eight cases of significant overcounting happened in heavily-blue states: New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, Minnesota, and Hawaii? Meanwhile, five of the six undercounted states? Red states: Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee.
Like so many areas of American political life, this wasn’t a bug, but a feature. Thankfully, it’s another feature that Donald Trump (armed with his relentless acknowledgement of reality) is removing from American life.
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Author: Ian Haworth
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