Posted on 03/27/2018 7:08:20 AM PDT by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON — The 2020 census will ask respondents whether they are United States citizens, the Commerce Department announced Monday night, agreeing to a Trump administration request with highly charged political and social implications that many officials feared would result in a substantial undercount.
In a statement released Monday, the Commerce Department, which oversees the Census Bureau, said Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had “determined that reinstatement of a citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census questionnaire is necessary to provide complete and accurate census block level data,” allowing the department to accurately measure the portion of the population eligible to vote.
But his decision immediately invited a legal challenge: Xavier Becerra, California’s attorney general, plans to sue the Trump administration over the decision, a spokeswoman for Mr. Becerra said late Monday.
Critics of the change and experts in the Census Bureau itself have said that, amid a fiery immigration debate, the inclusion of a citizenship question could prompt immigrants who are in the country illegally not to respond. That would result in a severe undercount of the population — and, in turn, faulty data for government agencies and outside groups that rely on the census. The effects would also bleed into the redistricting of the House and state legislatures in the next decade.
The Justice Department had requested the change in December, arguing that asking participants about their citizenship status in the decennial census would help enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which aims to prevent voting rights violations.
“The Justice Department is committed to free and fair elections for all Americans, and has sought reinstatement of the citizenship question on the census to fulfill that commitment,” a Justice Department spokesman, Devin M. O’Malley, told The New York Times in February.
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Xavier Becerra knows a lot about fibbing. He lied about the LEOs investigating the hard drive that he provided to the investigators in Washington.
Becerra has a problem 18 U.S.C. §1001.
“I have dual citizenship with the United States and Florida”,
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/the-census/n11327?snl=1
Hmm, I notice that the Commerce Department is handling the Census again. A switch from when Obama’s White House was in charge. I guess this is another example of President Trump’s dictatorial tendencies.
Think I’d have a multiple choice:
Are you a citizen of the United States?
A. Yes
B. Illegal Alien
C. Undocumented Alien
The only question we ever answer is number of people living in the dwelling. But we will answer the citizenship question. Then per usual we will run off the busybody census taker that will eventually show up in our driveway.
If Hillary had been elected I guarantee the census would have asked if there are any guns in the home and if so how many and what model.
The illegal immigration advocates do not want us to know how truly pervasive illegal immigration is in this nation. We would crap our pants if we knew the truth...
It was removed in 1960.
Ah yes, I see after a bit of poking around. I shouldn’t have bothered with the census bureau’s own site:)
Perhaps they can make illegals 3/5 of a citizen
How come the New York Times NEVER has ‘concerns’ for Americans? Try it sometime EMILY BAUMGAERTNER - one time - find out what it feels like to care about Americans...
Those who are in the country illegally are neither immigrants nor residents and should not be counted in the census.
That is excellent.
Originally, if you didn’t own land, you couldn’t vote, the reason being that those without property would always vote away the property of other people.
Since public dole people will always vote against those who work, we should go back to the original voting requirements.
“first object of government, ... to protect personal property from unjust confiscation.” James Madison
And if they all lie are there the resources to track them all down, match what they say against records already out there, then prosecute and/or deport them?
Way too many of these illegal scumbags use stolen identities of citizens, living and dead, which will further muddle any process of identification.
Put the question on the Census and if it scares off a third of the illegals and they can then be identified/deported then we’re still ahead.
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