State. and the Judiciary appropriations bill for fiscal year 1990. The main purpose of this amendment is to instruct the Census Bureau to remove from its count any resident in the United States who does not legally and permanently reside here. for purposes of reapportionment. Our Nation now faces a situation where some States In our country have more voting power than others because of the number of illegal aliens estimated to live in those States. If we allow the Census Bureau to continue estimating the illegal alien count In the upcoming census. we will continue to undercut the concept of "one man. one vote." and in effect water down the voting power of those legally enfranchised to participate in our democratic process. Granted it is not the fault of the State benefiting from the inclusion of illegal aliens in the count that this problem exists. However. the sad fact remains that many of the folks that have heretofore been included in the decennial census count are in this country illegally. To base the operation of our countrys Government and legal system on a count that is tainted by the inclusion of such "illegals." seems to me to be a glaring contradiction.
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