Posted on 03/28/2018 9:50:04 AM PDT by Brilliant
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio departed from his Miami colleagues Tuesday and said the decision by Commerce Secretary Ross on Monday to include a citizenship question in the 2020 Census is, essentially, no big deal.
“I personally don’t see the problem with it,″ Rubio told reporters at a “pen and pad” briefing in Tallahassee Tuesday. “I think there’s a lot of noise being made about it.”
Rubio’s comments diverge from the opinion of other members of Congress from South Florida who have said they fear some people could be dissuaded from answering the census if the citizenship question is asked. It would be the first time since the 1950s that the people are asked to identify whether they are legal citizens or not.
Miami Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has said she fears that asking about citizenship could discourage an accurate count and rob South Florida, home to about 450,000 undocumented immigrants, from drawing down federal dollars for infrastructure projects and social service programs that are based on the census count.
U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Miami, said he is also concerned that the question could discourage people from responding to the census tally, and ultimately harm everything from federal money to redistricting.
The U.S. Constitution requires the federal government to conduct a census every 10 years to determine how many people are living in a given area. The count traditionally attempts to include everyone, regardless of their citizenship status, including undocumented immigrants.
Rubio, however, said that since the census already asks a host of personal questions one more question -- about the legal status of people living in the country -- won’t matter...
“They ask you how much money you make, how many kids you have, your race and ethnicity. Why wouldn’t it ask you about your citizenship status?”...
(Excerpt) Read more at tampabay.com ...
Why does he say he “personally” doesn’t have a problem? Is there a problem or not?
Thinking if this question is not going to be included ALL my answers on the 2020 census will be, “I AM A US CITIZEN”
For example, earning: They give you the ranges, I’ll just write over all of them, “I AM A US CITIZEN”
Start a Twilter: #IAMAUSCITIZEN
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/images/2/2d/30435_Fus1900.pdf
This is the 1900 census blank form. It shows all the questions they asked ... and got answers to these questions.
My Ancestry.com DNA matched exactly with the research I've been doing for 60 years. It did allow me to break though one brick wall for which I could not find physical documentation. It confirmed a great great grandparents relationship in a line which I had suspected but couldn't prove before.
I believe Ancestry.com is very good, and although some have claims that DNA tests aren’t accurate, it makes me think it must have come from an unreliable lab...not thru Ancestry.com.
Thanks for verifying that... :)
Not very useful unless the (suspected) illegal shows I.d..which may in itself be fraudulent. That old ‘trust but verify’ thing.
OTOH, it may lead to few unloads of self-deportations.
4D chess, again.
R
The author says this would be the first time the question was asked since the 1950's. My understanding was that it was asked every census until Obama deleted it in 2010.
Thanks Brilliant. The author is a Partisan Media Shill.
When the Obama census came around, I filled it in, sent it back. Got a phone call from the census worker a few weeks later asking more questions. I hung up on her. I’m not going to make a profession of answering their questions. If they can’t ask the questions the first time, then don’t call me back. Later they called my house when only my wife was there. They wanted to talk to me, and my wife said I wasn’t there, but that she could answer any questions they might have. “Oh, no. We can’t do that. We need to talk to the person who filled out the form.” Criminey. I bet Obama used illegals to collect the census.
thank you. The problem with DNA tests is they are still a question in many areas of fact. My son had the DNA testing and they said he had no Irish in his background, and his great grand parents on his mom’s side are from Southern Ireland and came to the US themselves.
The living relatives that I have on my father’s side are all of the current family name and about four others. None are blood. My father was born in Oakland, California, to a woman according to his real birth certificate, but there is no record of the father being “unknown,” and my father tried to trace her but came up with nothing. She may have used a false name as she never existed on anything else, tax records, birth certs, property ownership, etc.
My adopted grand parents were great, so it never meant much to me that they were as they were. It just creates a problem for me to fill out census documents factually and really vexes the people trying to get the count of ethnicity. But I am really a north american, U.S. citizen and have been all my life. It just is an example of sometimes the feds can’t get something done so it bothers them. And that’s the fun of it.
rwood
Thee, in my mind, is an alternative motive for use of the census. The liberals have been trying like hell to place everyone into “categories” for use for many years. This way they can talk about the numbers for use in propaganda. They can talk about the 11% of the blacks, or the percentage of legals versus illegals, or to blame problems on certain groups like the Jewish. It’s just another way to use groups to control. It’s a way to find out you can’t just sell much lasagna in the ghettos so you find something you can by race. And you appeal to that as a market by race and not quality.
rwood
Best wishes... I was thinking the DNA would give you something to put on the Census, that would be close/correct, as ethnicity...meaning whatever is largest percentage of the DNA. Examples: Scotland/England/Italy etc.
Thank you. By process of elimination, it would tell me where my ancestors were from, possibly if the results don’t all come from the British Isles where the other side of the family comes from. But that wouldn’t be the reason for my doing it as I’m not concerned about where they were from. That doesn’t mean anything to me. I would be more interested in who they were, “or are.” That does mean something to me. And unfortunately there is no test for that.
I don’t care where you’re from if you are a good person. Your background in a sea of the same good people doesn’t create diversity. And that creates dissimilarity which breeds mistrust and fear to promote a lack of peace and tranquility. We don’t live in the 1700’s anymore and not being a productive part of the system harms its purpose and destroys it.
rwood
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