As has been noted in the recent past. from the Southeastern part of the Nation a number of people from one county in Mississippi tended to go to the same place in the North when they moved north. They liked the association with their friends and relatives. The immigrants who came here from Latvia and Estonia and Lithuania and Hungary each tended to congregate in specific areas. and that throws off the figures in those parts of the Nation for the trigger mechanism since we should only be concerned about those eligible to vote rather than noneligible individuals by Federal standards. As Commissioner Chapman estimated in one hearing. there are about 1 million illegal aliens in New York City. Whether we use information on citizens of voting age or on all persons of voting age could result in a dramatic difference in some areas. Since we are writing legislation today we ought to try to make it as exact as possible. and since the information is available from the Census Bureau we ought to use that.
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