Ah, you meant apportionment, not demographics. You are correct about apportionment. So your argument is that Democrats were only gentle on immigration because they wanted the voters in the States that would get those new representatives to like their party? If so, it raises the question...
... Why didn't the Republicans do the same? Seems like a good idea. Of course, the GOP pursuing good ideas may assume competence, something neither of us are assuming. I take your lack of defense of my criticism of this administration's competence as agreement.
(Different topic, but the Democrats were right to vote against proof of citizenship. You know who can't prove citizenship? My elderly mother-in-law who's born in the US and lived here her whole life. She doesn't deserve to be disenfranchised because her family was bad at keeping documentation. The people who get denied the vote when we start playing "papers please" at the polls are American citizens, not illegal immigrants).