Chairman. I thank the gentleman from Illinois for yielding. The testimony of Commissioner Chapman of the INS. indicated there are about 2.5 million illegal aliens who enter the United States each year. In the city of New York. for example. it is estimated there are 1 million illegal aliens. That would have a tremendous impact on the trigger in some political subdivisions if those voting or registered are compared to both citizens and noncitizens of voting age. We are going to have that same difficulty it seems to me with the Vietnamese. and even though they are going to be spread all over the United States pretty evenly now. If they are like other aliens who have come to this country they will tend to concentrate in certain places. which could throw off the percentages in those counties. There are better than 4 million lawful permanent aliens who do not have the right to vote added to illegal aliens could make the total between 15 and 20 million. so we are talking about a large number of people all over the Nation whom we need to exclude from the count In the triggering areas. so I urge support for the amendment.
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Aliens tend to concentrate in certain places.