I once heard, that if illegals were excluded from apportionment for Congress, that California could lose 4 or 5 house seats, out of the 53 current seats Calif. has in the House.
Kind of explains the motivation behind the love affair with the whole sanctuary city thing. Why encourage non-taxpaying persons to come here and suck up state resources?
Oh wait, could it be that their presence contributes to the body count for apportionment, which leads to more Reps in Congress, which leads to more dollars back to California that were lost due to taxpayers fleeing?
Could it possibly be that?! Uh, yeah.