GOP Tennessee Senator Bill Hagerty joined Fox News host Maria Bartiromo this week to warn the American people about Democrats using illegal immigration to gain more political power by giving blue states more electoral votes.
Hagerty was discussing legislation he recently proposed to address the issue that was defeated in the Senate after every Democrat voted against the bill last week.
The proposed bill would have simply excluded illegal immigrants from being counted in the U.S. Census since it’s used to tally the number of House seats each state receives and how many Electoral College votes they get in presidential elections.
The move would favor Democrats as migrants typically vote for the party that welcomed them into the country and provided them millions of dollars in government handouts.
Also, sanctuary cities in blue states filling up with illegals would inflate their House seats and Electoral votes.
“I think this proves the motive of the crime at our border,” Hagerty told Bartiromo. “They want these illegal migrants in here to create more electoral power for them in their blue states. They’re basically creating sanctuary cities to be a magnet so these people will disproportionately flow to these blue states. They’re shipping them there as rapidly as they can.”
He continued, “Since Joe Biden came into office, the estimates are as high as ten million people that have come in here. That would be thirteen extra congressional districts if you allocated them the right way. This is a tremendous amount of power that the Democrats are bringing in. They’re giving their voters, the blue state voters, disproportionately more power than they are giving my voters in Tennessee.”
X owner Elon Musk commented on the segment, writing, “More Presidential and House of Representatives electoral votes will be assigned to the new illegals Biden has let in than the population of 40 US states. Let that sink in.”
Musk had previously brought up the topic, writing, “Since illegals are mostly in Democrat states, both the House and the Presidential vote are shifted ~5% to the left, which is enough to change the entire balance of power! This is a major reason why the Biden administration is ushering in record levels of illegals and doing so few deportations.”
“This should be a crime,” wrote GOP Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
Well, it is already a crime to allow and facilitate the hordes of illegals entering the country so the laws are on the books if law enforcement would take action.