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2020 Census Apportionment

Analyses concluded that excluding unauthorized immigrants would have been roughly a wash for apportionment.

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Red states have more illegal immigrants than Blue States.

Recent, credible reporting shows that the simple claim "" is false as a blanket statement: a majority of the nation’s estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants live in states led by , and per‑capit...

Feb 2, 2026

How would excluding unauthorized immigrants from the census have affected congressional apportionment after 2020 and projections for 2030?

">Excluding unauthorized immigrants from the apportionment base would have produced small but tangible seat changes after 2020—’s analysis finds , and would each have lost one seat compared with the b...