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The Nation - News from Dec. 17, 1986

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States with the fewest immigrants will lose House seats if the 1990 census counts illegal aliens as residents, the head of an immigration study group told census supervisors in Washington. Roger Conner, director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, said that Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina and other states may lose seats in the 1990 reapportionment, leaving U.S. citizens under-represented.

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