[Auracle]

If there wasn’t a constitutional question there wouldn’t be an upcoming Supreme Court case about it.

And let’s be real - I find it pretty unlikely the constitution and 14th Amendment were written with massive amounts of illegal aliens being in the country in mind. Should we count tourists from other countries as well?

[comex]

The Constitution was, however, written with massive amounts of slaves being in the country in mind. And even they were counted as three fifths of a person. Should illegal immigrants be counted as less?

[Mindless2112]

At the time, slavery was legal. Unauthorized residency is not.

[minitoar]

It seems obvious to me the census is intended to count everyone living there, legally or otherwise. So tourists wouldn’t count.

[mensetmanusman]

It’s not so clear. Tourists are free people, and it might make sense to count them if we are trying to allocate resources to serve all free people (which tourists are).

If you don’t count tourists, why would you count migrants who are supposedly going back to their home country? Maybe tourists who are here for 6 months would be analogous.

[minitoar]

Who said we should count migrants that are supposedly going back to their country?

[mensetmanusman]

Lots of commenters here.