Posted on 07/09/2019 5:38:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The majority of Hispanic and black Americans support President Trump’s effort to ask all respondents on the 2020 Census whether or not they are an American citizen, a new poll finds. The latest Harvard/Harris Poll reveals that a majority of five-in-nine Hispanic voters, or 55 percent, and nearly six-in-ten black American voters, or about 59 percent, said they support a question on the upcoming census that would ask U.S. residents whether they are American citizens or not.
Overall, about 67 percent of U.S. voters said the citizenship question should be on the Census, including 72 percent of white Americans, nearly nine-in-ten Republican voters, 63 percent of swing voters, and 64 percent to 69 percent of working class Americans.
Trump’s Commerce Department first announced last year that the American citizenship question would be put back on the Census for 2020, as Breitbart News noted. Since 1950, the citizenship question has not been asked on the full Census, leaving the nation without an exact estimate of how many citizens and how many noncitizens are in the country.
Most recently, the U.S. Supreme Court voted five-four to block the addition of the citizenship question on the upcoming Census, though reports have circulated that Trump is planning to sign an executive order to ensure that the question is put on the 2020 Census.
Meanwhile, Democrats have claimed that putting the citizenship question back on the Census is racially-motivated against Hispanic Americans. House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed this week that the effort to ask U.S. residents about their citizenship status is a covert plan to “make America white again.”
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0 of 1 SCOTUS Chief Justices doesn’t want one.
This will be a test of wills.
God is still smiling on America.
He sent us Trump.
Then he protected Trump for all sorts of vicious attcks no one else could withstand.
And now he made sure the citizen question is getting aired out in front of the entire nation.
As the Democrats always say, but never mean, ‘we need a national conversation about this’.
i don’t see a link to the poll...
Democrats have claimed that putting the citizenship question back
on the Census is racially-motivated against Hispanic Americans.
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Nothing racial or to be worried about if one is a legal citizen.
It’s those that aren’t legal and don’t have papers that worry.
Minorities know they will get no jobs if the Invaders are not stopped. The Democrats have forgotten what James Carville said in 1992: It’s the economy, stupid.
You would think naturalized citizens of any race/ethnicity (myself included) are damned proud to be citizens and have no problem checking a box declaring it. They work at getting their citizenship and are glad to show it off.
Democrats want free medical care for illegals... That’s a slap in the face to all working class Americans (of all colors) who would be forced to pay for this perk while also competing with people willing to work under the table - for less than minimum...
If Pelosi was really forthright
with her opinion on the citizen-
ship question, she would realize
that there is another question
on the census that does deal with
a persons ethnicity. Being a US
citizen has absolutely nothing
to do with ones’ race. There
are illegal immigrants here of
all races. This sorry excuse of
a citizens’ elected representation
is a pale, pathetic joke.
In my experience that is exactly what has happened - en masse. I had many more black co-workers in the past, and now they are almost extinct - while I now have many Hispanic co-workers.
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