Bureau projections had put the 2000 population at 275 million. However, the Census enumeration actually found 281,421,906 residents instead. This is a 13.2 percent increase in the U.S. population since the 1990 Census. Acknowledging that it was surprised by the higher than anticipated count, the Census Bureau pointed to illegal immigration as the cause. Bureau Director Kenneth Prewitt noted that the count was larger because the Bureau did a better job than expected of counting undocumented immigrants.
Undocumented immigrants are aliens residing illegally in the United States.
The Census Bureau counts them as part of our population, even though it ought to be unconstitutional to count them when allocating representation in Congress. FAIR has twice sued to prevent the Census Bureau from counting illegal aliens, but in both cases judges found that no one has legal standing to ask for the counting to be halted. Two thirds of those people have yet to become naturalized citizens. Take the most recent dispatch from the U.S. Census Bureau on the number of foreign-born residents now living in the United States. This news was largely ignored by the major news media.