On Wednesday, House Republicans passed a bill that would add a citizenship question to the census and thereby prevent illegal aliens from impacting redistricting and Electoral College apportionment, the New York Post reported.
The Equal Representation Act passed in a 206-202 vote without any Democratic support. Introduced by Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-Ill.), the bill has more than 100 cosponsors.
States reevaluate their congressional map each decade, losing or gaining seats based on census population data.
"One of the great scandals in American history," Miller remarked.
“Including the count of non-U.S. citizens in determining how many congressional seats and electoral votes each state has is skewing the representation of Americans in their federal government,” Edwards stated.
“The mere presence of illegal immigrants in the U.S. is influencing electoral outcomes, and the Equal Representation Act that the House passed would protect our democracy by making sure that American citizens – and American citizens only – have a say in determining the direction of our country,” he added.
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) hosted a live Spaces discussion Thursday afternoon on X to discuss the bill’s passage in the House. He was joined by Stephen Miller, the founder of America First Legal and former senior advisor to President Donald Trump.
“They’re doing this for power,” Hagerty said of the Democrats who voted against the bill and have supported mass illegal immigration through the southern border. He explained that sanctuary cities “act as magnets” for illegal aliens to “dilute voters” in states like Tennessee.
“What the bill requires is a citizenship question on the census and it will prohibit counting illegal aliens for the purpose of apportioning Congressional seats and electoral votes by states,” Hagerty stated. “It really gets at the [motive] behind the crime that’s taking place at our southern border.”
“[Democrats are] doing this for power. They’re doing this to preserve power in many cases because when you think about the exodus from these blue states that are so poorly run, those citizens are leaving. They’re moving to states like mine in Tennessee. As those states lose legitimate legal population, one alternative is to backfill that with folks that are here illegally. And if you think about where the Democrats have situated their sanctuary cities, in states like California, Illinois, New York — where they’re losing population,” Hagerty explained.
Miller called the attempt to dilute political power “one of the great scandals in American history.”
He said, “Every single Senate Democrat, every single one, including people who have pretended falsely to be moderates ... voted to say, ‘I want illegal aliens in California to dilute the political power of Montana citizens. I want more congressional seats in California representing illegal aliens. I want more electoral power in the electoral college for illegal aliens in California.’”
“The Democratic Party is completely committed through the proposition that their political future rests on filling the country up with illegals,” Miller added.
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An anti-woke legal group run by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller filed a federal civil rights complaint Tuesday against IBM, noting that there is reason to believe the New York-based tech corporation "knowingly and intentionally violated federal law" by discriminating on the basis of sex and race.
Investigative reporter James O'Keefe shared a video to X Monday wherein IBM CEO Arvind Krishna and other IBM executives can be seen detailing penalties, including termination, for leaders who fail to sufficiently hire on the basis of race and sex.
Miller's group, America First Legal, cited this video in its complaint to the EEOC, indicating that the comments expressed in the video by Krishna and Paul Cormier, chairman of IBM subsidiary Red Hat — and the company's corresponding hiring and procurement practices — contravened Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
This complaint comes just weeks after IBM suspended its ads on X on the basis of disputed claims from the leftist activist outfit Media Matters, now being sued for defamation. IBM claimed at the time it "has zero tolerance for hate speech and discrimination."
The video shared by O'Keefe Monday, apparently recorded in 2021 and shared by a company insider, appears to show Krishna and Cormier admitting to denying workers bonuses and canning executives for failing to discriminate against prospective hires.
"I'm very clear about this. I expect at the executive level, so that is not just my directs, but all executives in the company, have to move forward by 1% on both underrepresented minorities," said Krishna. "Let me say it: Asians in the U.S. are not an underrepresented minority in a tech company. However, others are. Ditto on gender diversity."
"So we take underrepresented and gender. You've got to move both forward by a percentage," the IBM chief executive says in the video. "That leads to a plus on your bonus."
"By the way, if you lose, you lose part of your bonus," Krishna continues. "Paul [Cormier is] held to the same standards. Paul and I have been working together to say, 'Okay, how do we apply those deeper into the organization?'"
Later in the video, Krishna can be heard noting the company's preferred racial and sexual demographics.
Cormier said that "multiple leaders over the last year plus that were held accountable to the point that they're no longer here at Red Hat ... because they weren't willing to live up to the [DEI] standards that we set in this space."
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AFL noted in its letter to EEOC acting Director Timothy Riera, "Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits IBM from discriminating against an employee or an applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin[.] ... However, the evidence is that IBM is knowingly, intentionally, and systematically engaging in such unlawful employment practices."
"Krishna, Cormier, and others in management have embedded immoral and unlawful employment practices into the corporation's culture," the letter alleged.
Extra to referencing the 2021 leaked footage, AFL cited IBM's 2022 ESG report and the company's race-based "Supplier Diversity program" as further evidence of discrimination.
The ESG report detailed the company's "diversity-linked executive compensation" scheme, which links executives' compensation to their ability to hire candidates with preferred immutable characteristics, specifically women, black people, and Hispanics.
The supplier program seeks to prioritize building relationships with "businesses owned and operated by minorities, women, lesbian and gay, veterans, and service disabled veterans, and disabled persons." The company's 2022 ESG report notes that "IBM has committed to dedicating 15% of our first-tier supplier diversity spending to Black-owned businesses by 2025."
AFL requested the EEOC use its discretionary powers to file a "commissioner charge" against IBM and its subsidiary Red Hat.
AFL also penned a letter Tuesday to Krishna, highlighting IBM's alleged unlawful employment practices, unlawful contracting practices, and waste and breach of fiduciary duty.
Gene Hamilton, AFL vice president and general counsel, said in a statement, "Apparently, based on the video and the publicly available material on its website, the senior leadership at IBM is wholly committed to discriminating against Americans as a matter of formal corporate policy. This cannot stand."
Bloomberg Law, which indicated AFL may be setting the groundwork for the legal work of a second Trump administration with this and other initiatives, noted that IBM hadn't responded to a request for comment.
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