Tucker: 'The Left Almost Lost Consciousness' Over Census' Immigration Question

Fox News ^ | March 27, 2018 | Tucker Carlson

[yoe]

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Tucker Carlson said the political left loudly objected to the return of a question in the U.S. census that asks about citizenship status.

Carlson reminded the audience that the main point of the census is to apportion congressional districts.

"The left came close to losing consciousness today," Carlson said, after Secretary Wilbur Ross and the Commerce Department announced their 2020 census would again ask about citizenship status.

The question was absent from the 2010 census and was a fixture on the form from 1820 to 1950.

[yoe]

If we don't know how many citizens America has or our country has no borders.....do we have a sovereign nation at all?

[Lisbon1940]

Dems are politicizing a statistical survey.

[BenLurkin]

Americans think it’s a great idea.

Only the liberals are complaining.

[DLfromthedesert]

The illegal alien attorney he had on his show said everyone who lives in our country should be allowed to vote.

[Lurkinanloomin]

If we don’t know how many citizens America has or our country has no borders.....do we have a sovereign nation at all?
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No.

[rjsimmon]

The question was absent from the 2010 census and was a fixture on the form from 1820 to 1950

So, what happened during the 60 year span from 1950 to 2010? I do not recall any of the forms I had filled out asking citizenship. Could have, I just do not remember.

[arthurus]

The left is afraid of losing a big chunk of their voting strength if citizenship is asked. Illegals will lie about it anyway.

[Dapper 26]

The more the left objects, the more we should insure that the question is put on the census AND insure the honesty of the answers with severe penalties for false answers.

[dforest]

Tucker had a really good show yesterday!

[goodnesswins]

We should ask lefties if they like living in America...If they say “Yes” then tell them they won’t be soon...see if that engages their brain...

[Red Badger]

Since it was there before, there’s no reason for it not to be there now......................

[VanDeKoik]

They did it with blacks to boost numbers back in the 1800s.

And they never got tired of the idea, apparently.

[I want the USA back]

KEEP the question! Drop the question about muslim. (Middle Eastern North African).

[Political Junkie Too]

The citizenship question WAS asked on the 2000 long form census survey. This was during the last year of the Bill Clinton administration. Nobody was concerned about voter suppression when Al Gore was running for President.

The long form survey was stopped in 2010, but see question 13 on this link to the public informational version of the 2010 long form census survey at the census.gov website.

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

See my post #14.

-PJ

[treetopsandroofs]

“The illegal alien attorney he had on his show said everyone who lives in our country should be allowed to vote.”

“When you vote, you are a citizen,” quoth his god the Fraud.

[EdnaMode]

Many liberals are against open borders.

[dhs12345]

I can see why the Left are concerned about it — non-citizens don't get federal money and it will allow us to question the elections in sanctuary cities and states.

[pgkdan]

Many liberals are against open borders.

Like who?

[Rusty0604]

It was also on the 2000 census long form.