Because it's about power. More people in their districts, for example, means more congressional power based on the census and the head count and apportionment and redistricting. And then, in turn, presidential electoral votes.

California has more representatives in the U.S. Congress than it should because they count everybody.

And yet everybody isn't supposed to vote in federal elections. Only U.S. citizens are supposed to

vote in U.S. federal elections.

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Without further ado, here's the interview.

Laura Reese, welcome to the Signal Sitdown.

Thank you for having me.

Now, I think it's really important.

I haven't done this in other episodes.

Have people, have guests open up with a bio.

But you've spent 30 years in government and in the private sector and at think tanks working on the immigration issue.

So today you're at the Heritage Foundation.

But over this 30-year career, where have you been?

What brought you those places? Well, I got

interested in the immigration issue in college, went straight to law school. And out of law school,

I started here in D.C. with the Justice Department at the Board of Immigration Appeals,

then went over to the then Immigration and Naturalization Service to be a trial attorney doing

deportation proceedings.

Went to the Hill, worked House Judiciary Committee.

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