The state of Louisiana has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the inclusion of illegal aliens in the 2010 census count on which seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are apportioned among the states. The lawsuit asserts that Louisiana is one of five states which each lost one representative as a result of three other states gaining representation because of inclusion of such illegal aliens in the 2010 census count.
The U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution’s apportionment by population of the House of Representatives as requiring that, “as nearly as is practicable, one man’s vote in a congressional election is to be worth as much as another’s.” Since only U.S. citizens can vote, and because the illegal alien population is unevenly distributed among the states, Louisiana asserts that the inclusion of such illegal alien population in the 2010 census count deprives Louisiana voters of their rightful representation in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Louisiana seeks to have declared unconstitutional the inclusion of illegal aliens in the census count used to apportion congressional seats. Louisiana asks the Supreme Court to order the Census Bureau to….
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That's not just a no, it's a HELL NO. The Constitution is a contract drawn up between citizens, states and the (future) federal government. It has no application to those who are not citizens. NO ONE votes unless they are citizens. There are NO rights accruing from the Constitution which apply to anyone who is not party to the contract, and no alien, legal or otherwise is party to the contract which is our Constitution. Do not bring naturalized citizens into the argument, they are from that act to be regarded as citizens.
No illegal should be counted only real American citizens in the census.The only thing an illegal alien has is the right to go back to his country of birth and take Newt with them.Isn't it enough we give them free education,welfare and free health care