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tion districts get 4 fewer representatives than the citizens in the 13 high-immigration districts. It’s one man, one vote — with an asterisk.

To take an example from Texas, the Democratic- held 33rd district, where non-citizens are nearly 30% of the population, has 208,000 fewer voting-age citizens than the Texas 21st district. So the citizens in the 33rd district have marginally more clout and representation, thanks to a population tilted toward those who can’t vote.

Ultimately, the way to diminish these effects is to reduce the level of immigration. Early indications are that there has been a large exodus of illegal immigrants since Trump’s election, and the U.S. will have net negative migration for the first time in half a century. If Trump wants to fully capture the changes he’s effecting in immigration policy, he should indeed want a new census — in 2030.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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