The Border Patrol has encountered more than 5.6 million illegal border crossers on the Southwest border during the Biden presidency, and it has released more than 2.3 million of them into the country.

Why is the Biden administration allowing this?

A possible answer can be found in an executive order that Biden signed on the first day of his presidency. It reverses former President Trump’s memorandum that excluded undocumented immigrants from the decennial census that is used to determine how many seats states will have in the House of Representatives.

Undocumented migrants tend to settle in Democratically controlled cities that have adopted sanctuary policies that protect them from the threat of deportation, so any additional seats are likely to benefit the Democrats.

Biden claims that our “elected representatives have a responsibility to represent the interests of all people residing in the United States and affected by our laws.” If congressional representatives have a responsibility to represent undocumented immigrants, though, why have they legislated statutory provisions that make them deportable? How is that representing their interests?

The interests being represented in this situation are those of the Democratic Party, not those of the illegal border crossers Biden is releasing into the country.

Process for allocating congressional seats

Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution mandates that the apportionment of representatives among the states will be carried out within every 10-year period. Apportionment is the process of determining the number of representatives each state will have........

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