HEADLINE FIXED: California Gov. Brown wants to ensure ‘every [illegal] Californian is counted’ for 2020 census.

The issue has potentially far-reaching consequences for California, which has the highest number of illegal immigrants, approximately 2.35 million, according to data compiled by the Pew Research Center in 2014. Illegal immigrants make up nearly 6 percent of California's total population, dwarfing the total number of estimated illegal immigrants in states like Texas (1.65 million), New York (775,000), and Florida (850,000).

Complicating matters is the fact that California's population growth has slowed, based on U.S. Census Bureau data. In 2017, the state's overall population grew at a rate of 0.7 percent, slightly higher than the year prior but still an overall decline since 2009. In comparison, California's population grew at an annual average rate of 2.4 percent in the 1980s and slightly over 1 percent during the first decade of the new Millenium.

Furthermore, California's net domestic migration numbers are at a deficit, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Nearly five million people moved to California from other states between 2007 and 2016, while almost six million left in the same time.

An undercounted illegal immigrant population and California's slowed growth rate could result in the state losing billions of dollars in federal funding. Currently, there are over 70 federal programs directly tied to population count. Those programs generated an estimated $76 billion for state coffers in the 2015 fiscal year, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.

It's about the Benjamins. It's always about the Benjamins.