Tuesday, May 25, 2004
I'M ACTUALLY SURPRISED YOU DIDN'T KNOW
I had a caller yesterday near the end of the program that couldn't believe what I was telling him. Note to listeners: never complain about me repeating myself ever again because I have made this a major beef of mine - Illegal Immigration and it's impact on the Presidential Election.
The caller couldn't believe that we count ILLEGAL aliens when we take the census every ten years. It's true...and it's been policy since 1979. In 1979, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) sued to enjoin the Census Bureau from counting illegals in the decennial census of 1980 (FAIR v. Klutznick, 486 F. Supp. 564, D.D.C. 1980). The case was ultimately dismissed by the Supreme Court on the grounds of lack of standing. In 1988, a similar suit filed by FAIR, 40 members of Congress, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was also dismissed. As a result, the constitutionality of excluding illegal immigrants from the apportionment has yet to be decided by a court of law. But the 2000 Census is the first after an unprecedented influx of illegal aliens (thanks to lax border control and federal encouragement) in our history. This IS a big deal, but no one (not even Rush) is talking about this...
There's a reason for that...because it benefits George W Bush as well as Congressional representatives. Note the following from a piece by John J. Miller of National Review Online:
"...based on the fact that a state's electoral votes are the sum of its two senators and the number of its House members. In the 2000 election, Bush earned 271 electoral votes to Al Gore's 267. If any of the states in Bush's column had gone the other way — including New Hampshire (4 electoral votes) or traditionally Democratic West Virginia (5) — we'd now be in the third year of the Gore administration. Looking ahead, let's assume that Bush carries the same 30 states in 2004 as he did in 2000. Because this will be the first election following the 2000 Census reapportionment, Bush would collect 278 electoral votes from this same set of states. If both New Hampshire and West Virginia were to defect, Bush would most likely retire to his ranch in Crawford..."
It also means individual states are losing power to states with high concentrations of illegal immigrants (some even encourage it by giving out drivers licenses, in-state tuition, etc)...Montana, for instance, only has 1 Congressman...California picked up 6 extra in 2000. The issue could be easily changed if Congress would pass a law eliminating illegal aliens from the Census totals...but you guessed it, MIGHT makes RIGHT and states with big gains in congressional representation have a lot more pull...
I had a caller yesterday near the end of the program that couldn't believe what I was telling him. Note to listeners: never complain about me repeating myself ever again because I have made this a major beef of mine - Illegal Immigration and it's impact on the Presidential Election.
The caller couldn't believe that we count ILLEGAL aliens when we take the census every ten years. It's true...and it's been policy since 1979. In 1979, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) sued to enjoin the Census Bureau from counting illegals in the decennial census of 1980 (FAIR v. Klutznick, 486 F. Supp. 564, D.D.C. 1980). The case was ultimately dismissed by the Supreme Court on the grounds of lack of standing. In 1988, a similar suit filed by FAIR, 40 members of Congress, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was also dismissed. As a result, the constitutionality of excluding illegal immigrants from the apportionment has yet to be decided by a court of law. But the 2000 Census is the first after an unprecedented influx of illegal aliens (thanks to lax border control and federal encouragement) in our history. This IS a big deal, but no one (not even Rush) is talking about this...
There's a reason for that...because it benefits George W Bush as well as Congressional representatives. Note the following from a piece by John J. Miller of National Review Online:
"...based on the fact that a state's electoral votes are the sum of its two senators and the number of its House members. In the 2000 election, Bush earned 271 electoral votes to Al Gore's 267. If any of the states in Bush's column had gone the other way — including New Hampshire (4 electoral votes) or traditionally Democratic West Virginia (5) — we'd now be in the third year of the Gore administration. Looking ahead, let's assume that Bush carries the same 30 states in 2004 as he did in 2000. Because this will be the first election following the 2000 Census reapportionment, Bush would collect 278 electoral votes from this same set of states. If both New Hampshire and West Virginia were to defect, Bush would most likely retire to his ranch in Crawford..."
It also means individual states are losing power to states with high concentrations of illegal immigrants (some even encourage it by giving out drivers licenses, in-state tuition, etc)...Montana, for instance, only has 1 Congressman...California picked up 6 extra in 2000. The issue could be easily changed if Congress would pass a law eliminating illegal aliens from the Census totals...but you guessed it, MIGHT makes RIGHT and states with big gains in congressional representation have a lot more pull...
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