Count Me Out: States Seek to Block Illegals From Census

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
For red states Kansas, Louisiana, Ohio, and West Virginia are
suing over the Census Bureau including illegal aliens in the
population count, which they say cost them congressional seats in
favor of states like California. Arnt Arthur with the Center
for Immigration Studies says they have a point.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
States that had low levels of illegal immigration actually suffer
from this apportionment compared to other states that have larger
illegal population. So to point they're trying to make is
we should only be counting people who can vote citizens,
not just all the people who are living in the states.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
President Trump issued in order to do that during his
first term, but it was later reversed by the Biden administration.
Corey Jolson, who's Radio seven forty KTRH,