The Senator from New York has made a very cogent and absolutely correct observation. It may have been wrong and maybe they did not know what the-. were doing when they put this in the Constitution. but that is not for us to decide here. For 200 years we have counted illegal aliens in our census. and you are taking an amendment just in a preemptory way here and changing what has been going on for 200 years. When I was Governor of my State. every law we passed where we turned State funds to the cities or to the counties was invariably based on population. How would you like to be mayor of Houston. TX. and all these funds from the State of Texas are going to be dependent on the enumerated census of Houston. TX. and the last census of 1990. and you have anywhere from 10 to 30 percent illegal aliens in your city? You are going to get anywhere from a 10- to a 30percent cut in all of your street turnback funds. in all of the Federal funds that come back that are based on a population formula. and you are going to find the county judges. the county executives. and the mayors of this country very upset about this amendment. It is going to be unfair to them. and some of them are not going be able to run their cities.
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