This Is Why Democrats Are Out Of Touch With Americans, And IN TOUCH With Illegals!

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Senator David Vitter has tried to attach an amendment to the Commerce, Justice, and Science appropriation for FY2010 to clarify that the Census should restrict its counts to people in the US legally. The Hill reports that Vitter accuses Harry Reid of attempting to block a vote on the amendment, which might have serious consequences for California and other states with large populations of illegal aliens. Vitter claims that California got as many as five extra Congressional districts from the 2000 Census after their failure to determine status:

Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), who is sponsoring an amendment to an appropriations bill that would require illegal immigrants list their status on next year’s Census, said late Wednesday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) wants them counted amongst the general population instead.

The senator claimed that Reid wants illegals to be counted in the 2010 Census so that left-leaning states with high illegal immigrant populations could increase the size of their congressional delegations. The Census is a major factor in determining the each state’s share of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives.

“I think it’s pretty clear that Harry Reid and the Democratic side…wants illegals counted in the Census, wants illegals in the reapportionment of the House,” Vitter said on a conservative talk radio show late yesterday.

Vitter, who is co-sponsoring the measure with Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah), claimed that illegals counted in the 2000 Census allowed California to maintain up to five additional seats in Congress they should not have.

Each seat represents 690,000 American residents at the moment, although in 2000 it would have been closer to 640,000, as population grew about 8% since the last census. Would California’s illegals have amounted to 3.2 million? That would be the upper reaches of estimates for illegal immigrants in the Golden State, but probably not outside the realm of possibility. If they all got counted, it could have skewed the allocation of seats in the House as much as Vitter claims.

Critics will say that the Census is not an enforcement agency for immigration, and they’d be correct. However, no one says that the Census Bureau has to act as an enforcement agency, either. They do not need to call the cops if they discover that residents have no legal status to remain in the country. They do need, however, to document it, for a couple of reasons. The lesser reason is that it will give us some real data on which to base immigration enforcement and/or reform legislation in the near future — Barack Obama says it’s one of his key priorities — instead of relying on guesswork from contradictory resources on the subject.

More importantly, though, is the core purpose of the Census itself. The Constitution requires the Census to properly calculate the legal population in order to apportion representation in the House for the states. Not only does counting illegal immigrants have no legitimacy for that purpose, it penalizes those states who act to enforce American law and reward those that act as “sanctuaries” in defiance of the law and national security.

Below, Vitter makes his argument on the Senate floor. This amendment needs a vote so we can see how our Senators support and defend the Constitution.

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This just proves the point I made in my earlier post regarding photo ID requirements for everyone to prevent ILLEGAL immigrants from scamming our health care system.  The vote that was taken in Congress - and DEFEATED by DEMOCRATS on a straight party line vote - is exactly the kind of proof that Barak Obama and Democrats in Congress don't want to see regarding their "Make Illegal Immigrants Legal" campaign. 

Honestly, at this point, I think Americans are so fed up with the crap coming out of Washington DC.  Democrats WANT to take someone NOT FROM THIS COUNTRYand NOT IN THIS COUNTRY LEGALLY and basically make them eligible to be counted AS LEGAL, which essentially will skew all the 2010 US Census data in favor of ILLEGAL Immigrant states/counties/Politicians/Democrats.  There simply couldn't be any other explanation to it than that.  Any congressman/woman who votes to allow ILLEGAL aliens to be counted as a US Citizen should be removed from Congress and tried as a traitor to the USA.  Your job in Congress is to look out for AMERICANS, NOT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!!!  How much clearer do the American people need to make it!!!!!!

ILLEGAL Immigrants DO NOT deserve to be counted, they DO NOT deserve to have citizen rights, they DO NOT deserve our health care system on US tax payer subsidies.  We are AMERICANS, AND WE TAKE CARE OF AMERICANS FIRST AND FOREMOST, NOT ILLEGAL ALIENS WHO COME HERE AND BREAK OUR LAWS, STAY HERE ILLEGALLY AND USE ALL OF OUR SOCIAL SYSTEMS FOR THEIR BENEFIT WITHOUT PAYING INTO THAT SYSTEM TO MAINTAIN IT!!!

STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION NOW FIRST!@!@!  DO NOT GIVE ILLEGAL ALIENS THE RIGHT OF A US CITIZEN... THOSE RIGHT WERE EARNED, PEOPLE WHO COME HERE ILLEGALLY HAVE NOT EARNED THOSE RIGHTS AND SURE AS HELL DO NOT DESERVE THEM!!