It is about time! Heck, Mexifornia only has three new districts based on illegal alien count...ain't it just lovely???
State lawmakers are trying to drum up support for a congressional proposal to count only United States citizens when drawing congressional districts.
Unbelieveable! How can this even be questioned? UGGGGG! This country is SERIOUSLY screwed up!
20.000.000.00 Illegals are skewing our federal elections!!!
"current anti-immigrant sentiment"
Anti-ILLEGAL immigrant. %$&^$$#@ it!
Miller has been pushing this for a while now.
Does the constitution in fact require illegal residents to be counted for purposes of representation? I find that hard to believe!
The American Friends Service Committee, which advocates on behalf of immigrants illegal aliens, criticized the proposal as a harsh reaction to current anti-immigrant illegal alien sentiment.
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Ok, I'm going to go out on a limb here. No one is as opposed to the illegal immigrants and I, but.... those states do get stuck with picking up one hellacious tab for education, health care, infrastructure and other costs related to those scum bags, so although I am not for empowering their states to get more seats, shouldn't they get something? Its not their fault our Country has bad border control. Ok, educate me now.
Since they vote it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Bush's invitees.
I don't think it is necessary to amend the Constitution in order to exclude illegal aliens from the Census count. The Constitution says that Representatives are apportioned among the states based on the number of persons in each state, and that the actual enumeration shall take place as provided by law. Now, no one has ever claimed that just because the Census is held as of April 1, 2000 that foreign tourists that happened to be at Disney World that day should be counted as residents of Florida. And the Census Bureau counts, for purposes of reapportionment, permanent U.S. residents that are temporarily outside the U.S. in military service or in the U.S. diplomatic corps, and they aren't "persons" physically "in such State" on Census Day. So Congress has the ability to limit the Census count to residents of the U.S. and to include permanent residents who are abroad on government service.
I think it would be perfectly reasonable and constitutional, and long overdue, for Congress to legislate that, for purposes of reapportionment, only permanent U.S. residents will be counted, which would exclude people in the U.S. with tourist visas or temporary visas (such as student visas, or if a guest-worker program is approved), or illegal aliens. U.S. citizens and permanent-resident aliens that are premanent residents of the U.S. would be the only persons deemed to count for purposes of reapportionment. Moreover, permanent U.S. residents who are temporarily abroad for any reason (including Mormon missionaries, who were Utah taxpayers but were unfairly excluded from the Census count and cost Utah a House seat after the 2000 Census) should count towards the reapportionment count. The law should also clarify that students will count as residents of their home state and city, not in the state and city where they are going to college.
The law could also say that the Census would still count illegal aliens and people on temporary non-tourist visas for other Census purposes, such as predicting how many people will need public transportation, how many children may need nutritional assistance, etc.; I don't have a problem with that, and it would allay fears that non-permanent resident aliens will become "invisible" to the government. But only people who reside in the U.S. both legally and permanently should count when we reapportion House seats among the states.
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This is an idea that is decades overdue. Conservatives should push for it.
In related news, California dropped to have the same number of US Representatives as Delaware.