Democrats want to use illegal aliens and prisoners to determine legislative districts, as well as boxing out those who oppose them from any voice in how districts are drawn.
Democracy in New York is suffering from Democrats’ single-party rule. Recently, Democrats in the Assembly and Senate, in companion bills, placed politics above democracy by voting to amend the state constitution to ensure that the Democrat Party keeps its stranglehold on Albany politics into perpetuity.
Every ten years, a census is taken. The data collected affects the number of state legislators and the geographical boundaries of each legislative district.
After the districts were drawn following the 2010 census, voters passed a ballot referendum amending the state constitution to take redistricting power away from the legislature and to vest it in an independent redistricting commission. The Democrats, who now control of both houses of the state legislature, decided this year to claw back that power.
First, the legislature decreed that, for determining the number of residents of the state, and therefore the number of state legislators, non-citizens—including illegal aliens—will be counted. Illegal aliens, of course, tend to reside in urban and suburban areas of the state, which tend to be Democrat strongholds.
According to the Pew Research Center, the largest illegal alien population in the entire country resides in the metro-New York City area. As of 2016, that number topped 1 million.