This means that a state harboring more illegal aliens can gain more House seats as long as the Census Bureau finds the illegal aliens and counts them. This also means that the illegal alien population resident in the United States during a census year has the potential to alter the regional and philosophical balance of power in Congress.
Mesenbourg’s comments were made after a press conference on Wednesday where
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke joined several interest groups, including Univision, the National Council of La Raza, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) to talk about efforts to ensure a full count of Latinos in the 2010 Census.
CNSNews.com - Census Bureau: We’ll Work with ‘Community Organizations’ to Count All Illegal Aliens in 2010 (http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46021&print=on - broken link)
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