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Upcoming 2020 Census sparks fears of citizenship question
San Jose Mercury ^ | February 16, 2018 | Tatiana Sanchez

Posted on 02/17/2018 12:29:33 PM PST by artichokegrower

Amid ICE raids in workplaces and neighborhoods across the United States, some residents are worried about a topic that may come up in the 2020 Census for the first time in 70 years: their immigration status.

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To: Dilbert San Diego

Supreme Court was unanimous in counting illegals.

A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that illegal immigrants and other noncitizens can be counted when states draw their legislative districts, shooting down a challenge by Texas residents who said their own voting power was being diluted.


21 posted on 02/17/2018 1:23:46 PM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: artichokegrower
US Constitution
Section 4.
The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion;

It is time to throw out this government that refuses to protect us from invasion!

22 posted on 02/17/2018 1:23:57 PM PST by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: artichokegrower

Prisons count in the congressional tally too.

<>Students voting at college and possibly having opportunity to vote absentee at their place of residence.

<><>In California, the Registrar of Voters relies upon a negative declaration to monitor the voter roll. Send the post card back, if you no longer reside at the site shown on the address label. Well, the post office only forwards mail for 90 days and the new occupant of the apartment could care less. Bingo...the rolls in college towns are bloated with phantom voters and fertile playing grounds for voter fraud.


23 posted on 02/17/2018 1:24:10 PM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: artichokegrower

Wish I could live long enough to see how many times I’m listed on a certain census year. I sent in the form but census workers kept coming by and coming by no matter how many times I told them I was already registered.

I also know some folk who had fun with the questions.


24 posted on 02/17/2018 1:24:11 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: artichokegrower
Forget apportionment, Democrats have never hidden their devotion to representing non-citizens and their legal/philosophical defense of that!

Democrats Must Hide: How Many More Voters Than Citizens In Democrat Controlled Areas!

If known, they can not legally or philosophical defend that - and without it they can not win (and could not have won) so many elections.

25 posted on 02/17/2018 1:28:27 PM PST by drpix
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To: artichokegrower

The perfect antidote to Trump’s hot economy overheating our inflation rate—mass deportations!


26 posted on 02/17/2018 1:39:09 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: artichokegrower

Citizens should be afraid of waking up one day and being a minority of the population.


27 posted on 02/17/2018 1:42:51 PM PST by Crucial
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To: artichokegrower
Re: “Why should my representation in Congress be diluted by a non-citizen foreign national?”

The Census Act of 1790 directs that all persons in a district shall be counted except for Indians who are tax exempt.

The original Act says nothing about citizenship.

The original law has been amended or modified many times.

In 2016, just six weeks after Scalia died, the Supreme Court ruled 8-0 that “all persons present” must be counted in any district.

So, apparently the precedent law or the Constitution must have very compelling language about this issue.

28 posted on 02/17/2018 1:52:00 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: SMGFan

In 2016.


29 posted on 02/17/2018 1:52:30 PM PST by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

The 1920 census, 100 years prior, does not ask a person’s citizenship. It does ask for the “place of birth” and “mother tongue” of the respondent, their mother and their father.

I'm looking at it right now, showing my grandfather.

It asks:
*  year of immigration to the United States
*  naturalized or alien
*  if naturalized, year of naturalization.

30 posted on 02/17/2018 2:06:02 PM PST by BlessedBeGod (To restore all things in Christ~~Appeasing evil is cowardice~~Francis is temporary. Hell is forever.)
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To: BlessedBeGod

Can you tell me how you see that census———I’m not too clever.:-)

My father would be in it.

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31 posted on 02/17/2018 2:08:33 PM PST by Mears
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To: KarlInOhio

Every American patriot should boycott 99% of the census. It’s current form is illegal and unconstitutional


32 posted on 02/17/2018 2:23:14 PM PST by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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To: artichokegrower

If you are afraid of citizenship questions, you should be.


33 posted on 02/17/2018 2:42:16 PM PST by skimbell
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To: artichokegrower

They break the law when they sneak into this country, use some citizen’s social security number, file fraudulent applications to get SNAP cards and other welfare, and lie when they get their voter registration cards. So it shouldn’t bother them too much to lie to the census taker, too.


34 posted on 02/17/2018 2:44:13 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: artichokegrower

Make it question #1: Are you, and all in your household, US citizens and/or legal aliens?

If you answer “NO” to question #1, then all other information for that household is discarded and not valid for the census count.

The socialist-democrats would shit kittens over this.


35 posted on 02/17/2018 3:26:47 PM PST by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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To: rktman

For race, on any form that asks (including job applications) I choose other, and if prompted, write in Human.


36 posted on 02/17/2018 3:46:38 PM PST by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: ro_dreaming
😹🍿🍻🇺🇸. Same thing I do.
37 posted on 02/17/2018 3:55:49 PM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: artichokegrower
...some [All illegal] residents are worried about a topic that may come up in the 2020 Census for the first time in 70 years: their immigration status.

I fixed the post; But I can't help wondering... what happened in 1948?
Who introduced the bill? Who joined in sponsoring? Why?

The Census Bureau is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce and its director is appointed by the President of the United States.

Who decided that statistical information about United States residents was no longer a useful statistic?

All it took to restore this useful information was an Executive Order? So all it takes is an Executive Order?

38 posted on 02/17/2018 4:39:25 PM PST by publius911 (Am I pissed? You have NO idea...)
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To: exbrit
Didn’t they ask on the census before if there were guns in the home?

What's the penalty for creative responses?
What about pleading the Fifth?

The filth from south of our borders are very creative with their invisibility cloak.

39 posted on 02/17/2018 4:57:40 PM PST by publius911 (Am I pissed? You have NO idea...)
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To: Enterprise

One can be a LEGAL resident without being a citizen. My father has lived here for over 50 years, paid taxes, served in the US Army, and raised a family. He’s not a citizen. Would you send him home?


40 posted on 02/17/2018 4:59:35 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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