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Old July 16th 04, 09:34 PM
Brett
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"Steve Hix" wrote:
In article , Jack
wrote:

Brett wrote:

The census count is supposed to count everyone, including illegal
aliens.


What is the point of counting illegal aliens for the purposes of
assigning seats in Congress?


The census count is done for several purposes (at least, it is now),
only one of which is congressional distribution.


But the un-estimated body count of peoples living within a State DOES
determine how many Congressional representatives a State gets.