Thread: Illegal immigration hurts Minn. in House

Illegal immigration hurts Minn. in House

Published Friday, December 5, 2008

It seems that another aspect of the many dangers of illegal immigration is about to catch up with Minnesota.

The system of counting illegal aliens and non-citizens in the Federal Census every 10 years — and the use of these figures to establish representation in Congress — is about to take one of Minnesota’s representatives from the House. By law there are only 435 House of Representatives seats to fill. The number of representatives for each state is determined by population.

The distribution of the 435 House seats among the states is determined after the 10-year census. Districts are reapportioned in response to population shifts.

The states receiving the millions of illegal alien population will gain seats. Those states with smaller population increases will lose seats in the House of Representatives. This has not happened to Minnesota since 1960.

The states with more representatives will have the power in the people’s federal government. And of course the states losing representation will have less power.

So what should we do? What is the response of the liberals out there? Should we import more illegal aliens into Minnesota? Or is the more common-sense legal approach going to prevail?

I say stop illegal immigration! Why is this course of action so complicated to so many? We are in danger of losing our state and national voting power, the voting system, and the basis of our democracy as well.

Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John McCain and Ted Kennedy and others still covertly plan for amnesty for more than 20 million illegal alien foreign nationals already in our country. Reapportionment caused by illegal aliens is but another piece of destruction of America and a mockery of our Constitution.

Robert L. King

Hollandale
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There should be a Caucus among Representatives from states losing seats due to the existing apportionment rules. Citizens in a state should be the basis of apportionment.