[kinoxi]

The Constitution requires the Census Bureau to count everyone, including illegal immigrants, in the census. The once-a-decade population count is then used to apportion seats in Congress and to appropriate billions of dollars in federal spending each year.

Political power gained by the population increase and a bigger share of Federal apportionments.
This is what the politicians and bureaucrats in power are allowing US citizens to be undercut, stolen from, harassed, and murdered for.

[YellowRoseofTx]

The Constitution requires the Census Bureau to count everyone, including illegal immigrants, in the census.

Does it say that in the Constitution? I don't remember that part.

[rhombus]

The Constitution requires the Census Bureau to count everyone, including illegal immigrants, in the census. The once-a-decade population count is then used to apportion seats in Congress and to appropriate billions of dollars in federal spending each year.

This seems a little fuzzy to me. Can some Constitutional scholars out there help me out with Article II, Section I and the Fourteenth Amendment? Is it really required that illegals be counted? If so, why don't states like Rhode Island just bus a bunch of people in for the count to get their numbers up?

[pepsionice]

Maybe I’m just an idiot...but why would I want to count non-Americans as part of the census? If the guy has a visa...it might be in the gray area where it makes some sense...but why would I count a bunch of Indian students at Auburn university who are there for four years and have them edge up Alabama’s population? Seems to me that we’ve got this out of whack.