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First Bilingual Census Form Will Make It Easier for Latinos to Participate
CNSNews ^ | September 28, 2009 | Amy Taxin

Posted on 09/28/2009 9:47:35 AM PDT by opentalk

For the first time, the decennial census will be distributed in the two languages to 13.5 million households in predominantly Spanish-speaking neighborhoods. Latino advocates hope the forms will lead to a more accurate count by winning over the trust of immigrants who are often wary of government and may be even more fearful after the recent surge in immigration raids and deportations.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: census; illegals; immigrants; mexico
Latino advocates hope the bilingual forms will help show their strength in numbers to underscore their growing political influence and garner more in federal funds that are determined by population.

The bilingual forms will be mailed out to neighborhoods where at least a fifth of households report speaking primarily Spanish and little English, said Adrienne Oneto, assistant division chief for content and outreach at the Census Bureau in Washington. The cost of preparing and mailing the bilingual questionnaires is about $26 million, which is more than it would have cost to send only English forms.

More than a quarter of the forms will be distributed in California from Fresno to the Mexican border, with Los Angeles County topping the list. The Miami and Houston areas will also receive sizable numbers of the questionnaires.

1 posted on 09/28/2009 9:47:36 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk

I can sleep now tonight.../sarc. Actually I am going to fill mine out in Spanish and I am cauasion but had Spanish in high school and college and was stationed in Panama for two years...I think it would be great to throw them off. I guess it is better than most people on FR who are not filling theirs out at all.


3 posted on 09/28/2009 9:50:13 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: opentalk

Senor, it is time to learn English! pronto!


4 posted on 09/28/2009 9:51:07 AM PDT by brooklyn dave (Where's the birth cert?)
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To: opentalk
fearful after the recent surge in immigration raids and deportations.

How much more obvious can it be?

If they're legal, they have no reason to fear deportation.

5 posted on 09/28/2009 9:51:43 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (WARNING! WARNING! "Political Terrorist in Charge" — STAY AWAY FROM MY BODY)
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To: opentalk
Yes, here in Virginia a bi-lingual ballot will not be adequate ~ we need a minimum of 16 languages to cover the ballpark.

On the other hand you can simply change "McDonnell" to "Carmacadonnella", and "Deeds" to "Jaodeedasa" and that ought to be enough for any Spanish speakers who are literate.

6 posted on 09/28/2009 9:52:36 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: TribalPrincess2U

I am glad Acorn is not involved.


7 posted on 09/28/2009 9:53:38 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk

EASIER FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS TO REGISTER TO VOTE AND TO SKEW OUR DISTRIBUTION OF POWER. THIS IS TREASON AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS!

LLS


8 posted on 09/28/2009 10:01:02 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: JackRyanCIA

“America is dying.”

America as a free, constitutional republic is dying, and will be replaced by a third-world, ignorant, and unassimilating hodgepodge of reprobate losers. Want to see the future of America? Just look at Los Angeles. Corrupt, run into the ground by third-world loving thugs, and fouled beyond recovery by gangbanging slime.


9 posted on 09/28/2009 10:01:19 AM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: opentalk

There are ads here from state officials reminding us that *everyone* needs to be counted next year so that we don’t lose any Congressional seats....or Federal $$$.It goes without saying that every illegal and homeless person *will* be counted.Five times.


10 posted on 09/28/2009 10:02:10 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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To: LibLieSlayer

More of the power will go to California.


11 posted on 09/28/2009 10:04:24 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: muawiyah

>> a bi-lingual ballot will not be adequate ~ we need a minimum of 16 languages to cover the ballpark ...

Anyone besides me on ancestry.com? My ancestors (many of them illiterate) climbed out of the slums and gutters of Saxony, England, and Glasgow, managed to fight in the Revolutionary war, War between the States, WW1, WW2, and still all managed to be counted in ALL census reports since they got here.


13 posted on 09/28/2009 10:10:40 AM PDT by QBFimi2 (Ve are the New World Order; ve bring to the world dis-order. Spike Jones, 1943.)
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To: napscoordinator

I’m filling mine out in Potawatomi......


14 posted on 09/28/2009 10:12:29 AM PDT by Osage Orange (A community organizer cannot bitch when communities organize..... - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: LibLieSlayer

EASIER FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS TO REGISTER TO VOTE AND TO SKEW OUR DISTRIBUTION OF POWER. THIS IS TREASON AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS!

LLS”

Bingo !!! We have a winner !


15 posted on 09/28/2009 10:13:12 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: opentalk

“...and so, Mr. Rodruguez, how many people are domiciled in your household?”

“Cinco”

“I see...cinco...that’s uh...er.....eighty five! Ah, yes, that’s it. That fellow who plays for the Benglas is named Cinco. I’ll just mark down eighty five here. Truth is I got a “D” in Freshman Year Spanish...”


16 posted on 09/28/2009 10:17:59 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: opentalk
"Latino" is, I believe, a racial identifier. This implies that people with Spanish, South/Central American, or Mexican heritage are unable to learn English.

I don't believe this is the case. I believe the case is, we are over-run by illegal alien Mexicans, and that's who can't speak English.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

17 posted on 09/28/2009 10:20:58 AM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: opentalk

The Census man and the Mexican.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9s8U0O0XPE


18 posted on 09/28/2009 10:21:59 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: opentalk

In my best Church Lady voice, “Isn’t that special.”


19 posted on 09/28/2009 10:23:07 AM PDT by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
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To: opentalk

Isn’t that profiling?


20 posted on 09/28/2009 10:27:08 AM PDT by wac3rd (Felipe Calderon supports the public option.)
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To: ought-six

I lived in LA, a true place where the rot of America begins and serves as a showroom for the rest of MexAmerica.

Kennedy’s immigration policy and the resulting insanity of 3rd World migration has become the standard in LA.

It is one huge ghetto run by idiot Liberals.


21 posted on 09/28/2009 10:31:36 AM PDT by wac3rd (Felipe Calderon supports the public option.)
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To: opentalk

How about in Hmong and we must not, as a “great muslim nation,” forget Arabic. And what about Swahili the language of the great Arab enslavers of blacks and their black nationalislt emulators here in our nation?


22 posted on 09/28/2009 10:35:40 AM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: opentalk

Why are we taxpayers paying to have bilingual forms printed? One of the requirements to become a naturalized American is to be able to read, speak and understand English. Non-citizens shouldn’t be receiving Census forms, no matter WHAT language they’re printed in.

This is just more government waste!


23 posted on 09/28/2009 11:04:54 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: opentalk
But...but...but what about those of us who don't read, write or speak English OR Spanish?
In my case, I want the form in Sundanese (not Sudanese, Sundanese).
24 posted on 09/28/2009 11:28:09 AM PDT by sima_yi ( Palin / Palin 2012 (either order))
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To: opentalk

I have to fill one out, I’m from Canada, can I get mine in French Canadian.. {/ BARF


25 posted on 09/28/2009 12:57:49 PM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: QBFimi2

You are expecting too much!

Today’s immigrant should not be bothered with the trifles previous generations had to deal with, inluding:

- their legality
- their state of health
- their real name and identity
- bothering with learning our Imperialist American culture
- bothering with learning English, which subsumes their own cultural identity

Instead, we shall embrace everyone on their own terms, and become a more glorious nation as a result. Now, keep working harder comrade, your betters are depending on your proceeds to keep them in the lifestyle to which they have been promised!


26 posted on 09/28/2009 12:59:38 PM PDT by DesertConservative
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To: Osage Orange

Hey, we don’t care what town you live in,
just spreek engrish.


27 posted on 09/28/2009 1:04:19 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: opentalk
It will go to all sanctuaries... Kalifornicate the most.

LLS

28 posted on 09/28/2009 1:08:58 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: ridesthemiles

Thank you... sometimes I feel that I am alone!

LLS


29 posted on 09/28/2009 1:10:01 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: tet68
I'm going to be filling out in the Potawatomi language......

fwiw-

30 posted on 09/28/2009 1:12:36 PM PDT by Osage Orange (A community organizer cannot bitch when communities organize..... - Rush Limbaugh)
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