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.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
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.
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.
Senor, it is time to learn English! pronto!
How much more obvious can it be?
If they're legal, they have no reason to fear deportation.
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.
I am glad Acorn is not involved.
EASIER FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS TO REGISTER TO VOTE AND TO SKEW OUR DISTRIBUTION OF POWER. THIS IS TREASON AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS!
LLS
“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.
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.
More of the power will go to California.
>> 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.
I’m filling mine out in Potawatomi......
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 !
“...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...”
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.

In my best Church Lady voice, “Isn’t that special.”
Isn’t that profiling?
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.
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?
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!
I have to fill one out, I’m from Canada, can I get mine in French Canadian.. {/ BARF
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!
Hey, we don’t care what town you live in,
just spreek engrish.
LLS
Thank you... sometimes I feel that I am alone!
LLS
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