Illegal Aliens Could Give, Cost House Seats

Here is a consequence of illegal immigration that isn't receiving much press- the unchecked flood of aliens into Florida, Texas and Arizona could net them more seats in the House of Representatives.

From the Norwich Bulletin:

Census to change Congress
Sep 30, 2007 @ 01:31 AM
By ERICA JACOBSON

Florida could get as many as three additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives with Arizona and Texas each gaining two seats if the 2010 U.S. Census counts the nation’s undocumented population.

This is according to a study released today by the Connecticut State Data Center at the University of Connecticut. New York and Ohio would each lose two seats and Illinois, Michigan and Missouri would lose one seat each. Connecticut’s seats would stay the same.

The changes could be problematic, the study’s author said, considering undocumented residents don’t vote.

“The number of voters hasn’t changed,” Orlando Rodriguez, the center’s manager, said Friday. “What you’ve actually done is allocated an extra seat to a group of people who are not participating in the political system. It gives more voting power to those who do participate.”

(The rest of the article can be read at the above link)