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(Hard copy title--"Census officials: It's only about the numbers"--subtitle SHOULD be: "or How many red flags can YOU count in this article?!) Until she retired last year, my mother was an interpreter for the U.S. Census Bureau. Every month or so, she would accompany a census worker to homes where Spanish was the main language spoken. Like so many Mexican-Americans of her generation, she's completely bilingual but prefers to speak in her mother's language. What she found many times during home visits with census workers was, unfortunately, a mountain of distrust, fear and misinformation. Chief among the unspoken concerns among...