Why would illegals count?

You might need to update your requirement for the respondent to be in their right minds to get more answers.

Those who see the invaders as citizens regardless of their failure to legally qualify as such, although generally regarded here as suffering from mental illness, do occupy positions in some state and local governments. And they tend to see anything that brings more money from the federal government as being a gift, rather than a loan from our grandkids that will have to be repaid with compounded interest eventually to prevent the collapse of our entire economic system.