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Dem AGs press Trump officials not to include citizenship question in census
2018-02-14
[THEHILL] State Attorneys General Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), Eric Schneiderman (D-N.Y.) and Maura Healey (D-Mass.), joined by 16 others sent a blistering letter Monday warning Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross against approving a question about citizenship status in the 2020 Census.

Doing so, they said, would be unconstitutional.
The nation has no need to know how many non-citizens are inhabiting it.
Also, adding a citizenship question this late in the planning for the 2020 Census, they argued, “would significantly depress participation, causing a population undercount that would disproportionately harm states and cities with large immigrant communities.”

“This undercount would frustrate the Census Bureau’s obligation under the Constitution to determine ‘the whole number of persons in each state,’ threaten our states’ fair representation in Congress, dilute our states’ role in the Electoral College, and deprive our states of their fair share of hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds that are allocated in part on decennial Census data,” they wrote.

Posted by:Fred

#10  On the last one I wrote down Martian for ethnicity.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2018-02-14 15:14  

#9  Actually the majority of foreign nationals will be legal residents, just as I was for some time.

Maybe in Europe but not California. We are overrun by illegals. I swear the California state government gets its marching orders from Mexico City.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-02-14 13:23  

#8  I received that pages long census a few years ago. What's one more question?

I didn't answer any of them. We want to know your health status so we can inform your local fire dept. yeah. Umm no.
Posted by: Clem Kadiddlehopper9000   2018-02-14 11:48  

#7  Actually the majority of foreign nationals will be legal residents, just as I was for some time.
Posted by: European Conservative   2018-02-14 07:08  

#6  Sanctuary states, especially, are worried that if illegals are not counted, their population will go down,and they could lose seats in Congress.

Here's an idea: How about if illegals count for a fraction of a citizen? Say, maybe 3/5?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2018-02-14 06:57  

#5  German Census has always had that question.
Illegals are not likely to participate anyway.
Posted by: European Conservative   2018-02-14 05:41  

#4  Huevos, even.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2018-02-14 04:31  

#3  A modern-day fable: "Hey, Zeus,
Why screwing and strangling that goose?
Its juevos de oro
Could feed us tomorrow."
"I know, but I must reproduce!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2018-02-14 04:29  

#2  OK, as long as we also get rid of race/ethnic questions too.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-02-14 02:06  

#1  I have had it with this ass clown show. Voter ID, Recert USB on election machines offline before elections, and only US citizens vote in these elections period.
Posted by: newc   2018-02-14 01:11  

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