Posted on 10/07/2007 1:53:58 PM PDT by calcowgirl
Illegals may give state more clout
Undocumented population may give California more seats in Congress
Illegal immigration is channeling political clout to California and other border states from the Northeast and Midwest, according to a new report that predicts that California's undocumented population will equate to two seats in Congress following the 2010 Census.
The Connecticut report predicts that California, Arizona, Texas, Florida and New Jersey will gain seats in Congress after the next Census because of their illegal immigrant populations. Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, and Ohio will each lose a seat because they have relatively few undocumented immigrants. New York, which would lose two seats under the current system, would lose only one seat if illegal immigrants were excluded.
California would appear to have the most to lose if the apportionment of seats in the House were changed to be based only on citizens. According to Rodriguez' projections, California, which has one quarter of the nation's estimated 11.6 million undocumented immigrants, would be the only state to lose two seats after the 2010 Census if that population were not counted.
The nation's population of unauthorized immigrants has grown by 37 percent since the last Census, according to the U.S. Office of Immigration Statistics. California has about 2.8 million unauthorized immigrants, about 1.2 million more than Texas, the state with the second-highest total.
(Excerpt) Read more at insidebayarea.com ...
Lets all give the democrats a big round of applause. And while we’re at it lets all send out a special thank you to the open border republicans.
Not news, but fact....that’s how representation is made. Like slavery in modern times ie it’s used both on representation and cheap labor.
Why on earth would we count non-citizens for electing representatives? I didn’t even know we were doing this. This is madness. We just can’t wait to give our country away.
Then let’s use the three-fifths rule.
Like DUH! Just look along the borders at the Red/Blue maps of the last election.
This crap has no end, and we need to establish a bounty system for U.S. Citizens who turn in an illegal. WE could SAVE Billions this way, and it sure would clean up this mess.
They're probably only undocumented in Mexico because they have documentation out the wazoo in the US - welfare, registered democrats, school enrollment, government housing, paychecks, bank accounts, home ownership, drivers licenses, jail time, unpaid hospital bills, etc.
Put a map of "crime areas" next to a map of "Democrat-voting areas", and I am sure it would show where the voters for the Sociailists are.
That is why the last couple census's they RATS insist upon counting the homeless under bridges. More representative for the RAT concentrated areas.
If you aren’t a registered voter, you shouldn’t get representation.
PING!
Marvelous.
And if the homeless guy under the bridge has multiple personalities, they will register each personality as a separate voter. As Democrat voters, of course!
Actually, on second thought, I would go even further than my previous post. I would calculate representation by the number of actual voters that showed up to vote in the previous election.
Someone please explain why congressional seats would be based on anything BUT citizens????
I'll give it a try but after the first fifth, things get blurry and it makes it hard for me to drive.
A repeat but for dif’t reasons?
The failure to reapportion in 1920 was also a reflection of regional power dynamics. The results of the 1920 Census revealed a major and continuing shift in population from rural to urban areas, which meant that many representatives elected from rural districts resisted reapportionment. Also, the growing number of immigrants entering this country had some impact on population shifts. Delay followed delay as rural interests tried to come up with mechanisms that would reduce the impact of the population shift. Congressmen from rural areas that would lose seats to more urbanized areas simply blocked passage of reapportionment legislation for 9 years.
http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/articles/boundaries/a_conApport.html
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