re: Should Illegal Aliens count towards congressional representation?

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Every illegal counted in a census cancels one citizen's congressional representation

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This doesn't make sense mathematically for numerous reasons (e.g., small percentage of illegals, every state has illegals, takes a lot of people to impact appropriations, large variance in population for appropriations between states, etc.).

Regardless, since the Constitution, as written, specifies ALL FREE PERSONS, even though the USA was a place that attracted immigrants, even before it was an independent nation, and would undoubtedly continue to do so.

So based on the Constitution, which a presume you value, no FREE PERSON can cancel out any other FREE PERSON'S congressional representation.