Thread by @TexasTribune

1/ If the Trump administration asks about citizenship on the upcoming census, Texas could lose at least one of the three congressional seats it’s expected to gain after 2020. #tx2020 bit.ly/2ZDS6iS

2/ The U.S. Supreme Court could soon alter the political future of Texas when it decides whether the Trump administration can ask about citizenship on the upcoming census. #tx2020 bit.ly/2ZDS6iS

3/ The administration pushed to add the question, citing it as a tool it needs to enforce the federal Voting Rights Act. But demographers have warned that immigrants and their families will be too afraid to respond. #tx2020 bit.ly/2ZDS6iS

4/ Such an undercount in the once-a-decade census would come with serious repercussions for a state like Texas, where the number of noncitizens has helped grow the state’s political clout. #tx2020 bit.ly/2ZDS6iS

5/ How many noncitizens live in Texas? About 3 million Texans are likely noncitizes.

That means the noncitizen population is the equivalent of four congressional districts in Texas. #tx2020 bit.ly/2ZDS6iS

6/ In these three Texas congressional districts, noncitizens make up more than 20% of the population. District 33 is in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, while District 29 and District 9 are in Houston. #tx2020 bit.ly/2ZDS6iS

7/ If noncitizens are missed in the count, the boundaries of those Democratic districts would have to greatly expand to meet constitutional population requirements for redistricting. #tx2020 bit.ly/2ZDS6iS

8/ Redistricting could be used to pull in Democratic voters from neighboring districts to shore up Republican-held districts that would not see similar drops in population.

Those changes could be the sharpest in the House. #tx2020 bit.ly/2ZDS6iS

9/ In a quarter of Texas House districts currently represented by Democrats, at least 1 in 5 residents are noncitizens.

That’s only the case in one Republican district. #tx2020 bit.ly/2ZDS6iS

10/10 Follow @alexazura for updates today. #tx2020