Illegal Immigrants Cost LA Congress Seat?
The state of Louisiana says that they are about to be one congressional seat short and it's all because .
Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has filed suit in the U.S. Supreme Court. They are asking that illegal immigrants be excluded from the national census when it comes to figuring out how to divide up seats to the House of Representatives.
Unlike the Senate, the House's seats are apportioned according to population. Louisiana says that if illegal immigrants were excluded from the census, states with a higher number of undocumented individuals should get less representation. And, states with less illegal aliens should get more.
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