Some 40 members of Congress have joined with the Federation for American Immigration Reform in announcing that a suit will be filed in an effort to stop the Census Bureau from counting the estimated 2 million illegal aliens living in the United States. Rep. R-Kan., R-Pa., said everyone should be counted but the Census Bureau should develop a method to determine how many people are illegal and deduct that number from the figures used for reapportioning Congress. Rep. Jan Meyers, Tom Ridge, suggested that a question should be put on the Census form asking whether respondents are U.S. citizens.
Some 40 members of Congress have joined with the Federation for American Immigration Reform in announcing that a suit will be filed in an effort to stop the Census Bureau from counting the estimated 2 million illegal aliens living in the United States. Rep. Tom Ridge, R-Pa., said everyone should be counted but the Census Bureau should develop a method to determine how many people are illegal and deduct that number from the figures used for reapportioning Congress. Rep. Jan Meyers, R-Kan., suggested that a question should be put on the Census form asking whether respondents are U.S. citizens.