You have no voice, you don't exist

"Republican wants to change Census count" -- When I saw this headline on Reuters I said, hmm, harmless enough I guess. But wait, a Republican wants to do this? There must be a sinister reason behind it, so I clicked on the article and of course I got pissed.

[Michigan Rep. Candice Miller] on Tuesday proposed changing the U.S. Constitution to exclude non-citizens from the Census for the purpose of drawing congressional districts, a move that effectively would deny them a voice in U.S. politics.

Under the present system, as determined by the 14th amendment to the Constitution, the Census Bureau counts all individuals living in the country once every 10 years. This data is used when drawing up the 435 congressional districts and when determining each state's vote in the Electorial College that decides presidential elections.

Rep. Miller wants to change that so that both legal and illegal aliens would be excluded.

"This is about fundamental fairness and the American ideal of one man or one woman, one vote," Miller told a hearing of the House of Representatives subcommittee on federalism and the census called to debate the matter.

Miller's proposal comes amid a growing tide of anti-immigrant sentiment, particularly among Republicans in the House of Representatives. Several proposals are under consideration to toughen border controls and make it more difficult for employers to give jobs to illegal aliens...

"Immigration takes away representation from states composed almost entirely of U.S. citizens so that new districts can be created in states with large numbers of non-citizens," said Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors a slowdown of legal immigration and tough enforcement...

According to Clark Bensen of Polidata, a Virginia firm which analyses demographic information, excluding non-citizens would have boosted President George W. Bush's margin of victory in the Electoral College from 4 to 12 votes in the disputed 2000 election and from 34 to 42 in 2004...

If you could see me typing this, it's with one finger and I'll give you one guess which finger it is.

Lawful members of our society who pay income, property and sales taxes as well as for your and my Social Security, will ask why they are being denied the earliest and most basic right of our democracy -- political representation," Kenneth Prewitt (head of the Census Bureau) said.

According to the 2000 census, there were 31 million foreign-born people in the United States, of whom an estimated 60 percent were non-citizens.

That's right you fuckers. Most legal aliens have been in this country for years but never become U.S. citizens, whether it's fear of loosing their national identity or a loyalty to their mother country. It does not mean that they don't put hard work and money into the system. This is an obvious attempt by the Republican party to strengthen their Electoral votes for the next election.