Burns (R): Census should exclude illegal immigrants

[babylonsister]

More gerrymandering by the repugs?


http://www.helenair.com/articles/2006/05/03/montana/a11050306_04.txt

By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press Writer - 05/03/06

WASHINGTON — Montana Sen. Conrad Burns has proposed excluding illegal immigrants from the congressional apportionment process, a move that could shift House seats from growing border states to smaller states with lower immigrant populations.

Burns, R-Mont., introduced legislation Tuesday that would require the Secretary of Commerce, who oversees the Census Bureau, to adjust the population numbers used to apportion congressional seats to exclude illegal immigrants.

The Census Bureau does not currently distinguish illegal immigrants in its population estimates gathered every 10 years.

Montana has one House seat for about 920,000 people, while the average member represents about 650,000. Burns says that the nation’s estimated 11 million to 12 million illegal immigrants are distorting Montana’s congressional representation.

‘‘If these trends continue, we will be looking at upwards of 15 million illegal aliens in the United States for the 2010 census, maybe more,’’ Burns said Tuesday. ‘‘And the result will be more seats lost in states that have actually increased in population of law-abiding U.S. citizens.’’

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1. Oh that's really smart..

Yeah..let's be as ignorant as we can and not even collect information.

[babylonsister]

3. I think it's pretty blatant! He learned his lessons from DeLay. nt

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2. Burns should be in jail.

Come November he will not be in the Senate.

[HereSince1628]

4. I had no idea illegals were counted.

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5. I don't think they ask proof of citizenship...

...the idea is to get an accurate reflection of the population.

[babylonsister]

6. I think you're right; whoever has been interviewed or returned

the census form gets counted.

[NV Whino]

7. I rather doubt that they are

When illegals see someone official coming to the door, or an official document, they do not answer door, nor do they fill out document. We're talking "illegal" here. They don't want to get deported to... wherever... by being officially recognized.

[ComerPerro]

8. Then we should only count voters

That means all those republican freaks with their 10 or 15 kids only count as 2 people on the census...