document: The director of the county Social Services Agency wants all Orange County residents , including illegal aliens , to be counted in the 1990 Census , and he will ask the Board of Supervisors to support his position . A resolution doing just that will be introduced at the supervisors ' meeting Tuesday . Agency officials said that if illegal aliens were to be excluded from the count , it would mean that , on paper , the county had 200,000 fewer residents than the county 's actual population . That lower figure would result in the loss of an estimated $ 56 million a year in federal revenue , they said . In a letter to the supervisors , Larry Leaman , director of the agency , urged the board to adopt the resolution supporting a complete count of all county residents and opposing `` all attempts to systematically exclude any groups from the census . '' Such exclusions , the letter said , could result in the county losing representatives in Congress because districts are determined by population . Just Thursday , efforts to include illegal aliens in the Census received a major boost when negotiators from the U.S. Senate and House agreed on the issue . Before Thursday 's action , the Senate had voted to bar the Census Bureau from counting illegal aliens , although the House had twice rejected efforts to exclude aliens . The agreement worked out Thursday at the House-Senate conference will go back to each body before it is sent to President Bush , but it is considered likely to be approved . Orange County officials contend that much is at stake in whether aliens are included in the count . In 1985 , before the Federal Immigration Reform Act , the number of illegal aliens in the county was estimated at 300,000 . In Santa Ana , home to 44.5 % of the county 's Latinos , city officials worried about the ramifications of undercounting its residents . They figured that in the 1980 Census , the city was shortchanged by at least 50,000 people . If those residents had been included , it could have meant another $ 2.2 million in state and federal revenue , according to city officials . GEORGE FRANK
extractive_keyphrases: illegal aliens 1990 census complete count federal revenue census bureau orange county residents representatives
abstractive_keyphrases: u.s. senate