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La. Seeks to Ban Illegal Immigrants from Census Count in Suit Filed with Supreme Court

abajournal.com
Posted Nov 15, 2011 10:17 AM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss

The state of Louisiana has filed a lawsuit directly with the U.S. Supreme Court that contends illegal immigrants should not be included in census totals used to apportion House seats.

Louisiana says 2010 census numbers include millions of people who are not permanent residents of any state, and Louisiana has lost a House seat as a result, SCOTUSblog reports. The Constitution’s requirement for a census refers only to people who have a permanent legal residence in the states, according to the suit (PDF).

The federal government will likely offer its views before the Supreme Court decides whether to allow the suit.

Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell issued a statement announcing the lawsuit, the New Orleans Times Picayune reports. He said states "with large numbers of illegal foreign nationals" picked up seats in Congress at the expense of Louisiana and other states with fewer such residents. He said the needed information is already included in 2010 census results and a new tally would not be needed.

The case is Louisiana v. Bryson.

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Exactly as it should be. Good for LA. By counting illegals in the census, redistricting results in representation for people that have no right to be here and should have no standing in our government. As a result, we have people like Luis Gutierrez in office forever.

This is so common sense that one has to wonder why it took so long! Illegal invaders should count for nothing in this country and should certainly not be counted in order to apportion seats in congress.

Common sense alert!!!

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This is a very important lawsuit! Go Louisiana!

Illegal aliens steal representation from law abiding Americans.

We need justice.

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Louisiana Sues Federal Government Over Illegal Aliens

November 16, 2011
by Laura Curtis

We count illegal aliens in the census, and that is a good thing because we need to know just how many people are here illegally. But we should not count them for the purposes of apportioning Congressional districts. Because the federal government did just that, several states including Louisiana lost seats in the House. This week, Louisiana’s Attorney General Buddy Caldwell filed suit in the Supreme Court to get that seat back.

It’s not just the loss of a House district. Louisiana vs. Bryson (that’s John Bryson, Obama’s controversial Secretary of Commerce) points out that with the loss of the House district comes a reduction in electoral college votes. As Lyle Denniston writes at Scotusblog:

[quote]The result of these disparities, Louisiana said, is that the votes of its citizens are worth less “in terms of electoral powerâ€