Mr. President. the Census Bureau policy jeopardizes the constitutional right of North Carolina citizens to fair and equal representation. If the Census Bureau counts illegal aliens. the citizens of North Carolina risks losing a congressional seat. We lose a congressional representative just because some bureaucrats at the Census Bureau think the Constitution requires them to count illegal aliens. Mr. President. illegal aliens do not have the right to vote. So why should they have the right to determine the makeup of our Government? If illegal aliens are counted. States like California will gain a seat at North Carolinas expense. Therefore. Californians will have proportionally more congressional representation than North Carolina. They will have more votes in Congress thanks to people breaking the law and entering as illegal aliens. I simply do not believe that our Founding Fathers ever intended to let people who cannot vote and who break the law determine the political makeup of our Government. As Judge Noonan pointed out. if a foreign army invaded our country on census day. we would not count them in the census. Nothing in the Constitution requires the counting of illegal aliens in the census. As Senator HATCH explained during the debate in July. the Constitution speaks of "persons" in the sense of legal persons. not illegal. If the Constitution stands for anything it stands for legalitynot illegality.
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