Including Illegal Aliens in 2010 Census Raises Serious Constitutional, Voting Rights Issues
The Vitter amendment would require the Census Bureau to ask questions about citizenship and immigration status as part of the 2010 decennial census, brining with it serious implications about a variety of issues. Census data will be used to “apportion” Congressional seats to each state. If non-citizens are used for purposes of Congressional apportionment, nine states with lower illegal immigration and lower foreign-born populations would end up losing a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, while four states would pick those seats up.The implications are that the inclusion of non-citizens for purposes of House apportionment would reduce, or dilute,...
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