Dem AGs press Trump officials not to include citizenship question in census

[Right_in_Virginia]

Dem AGs press Trump officials not to include citizenship question in census
The Hill, Feb 12, 2018, Lydia Wheeler

State Attorneys General Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), Eric Schneiderman (D-N.Y.) and Maura Healey (D-Mass.), joined by 16 others sent a blistering letter Monday warning Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross against approving a question about citizenship status in the 2020 Census.

Doing so, they said, would be unconstitutional.

Also, adding a citizenship question this late in the planning for the 2020 Census, they argued, “would significantly depress participation, causing a population undercount that would disproportionately harm states and cities with large immigrant communities.”

“This undercount would frustrate the Census Bureau’s obligation under the Constitution to determine ‘the whole number of persons in each state,’ threaten our states’ fair representation in Congress, dilute our states’ role in the Electoral College, and deprive our states of their fair share of hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds that are allocated in part on decennial Census data,” they wrote.


More: http://thehill.com/regulation/administration/373450-dem-ags-press-trump-officials-not-to-include-citizenship-question

[txradioguy]

Of course they don't want the citizenship question added.  It would show their complicity in subverting federal immigration laws.

[Snarknado]

Wonderful - US citizens must pay for a census that for purely political reasons deliberately denies them the right to know the population of US citizens.

If the question is approved, it's a safe bet that these same AGs will encourage illegals to respond but lie about their status.

And I'd love to see the constitutionality challenge go to SCOTUS...

[edpc]

Of course they don't want the citizenship question added.  It would show their complicity in subverting federal immigration laws.

The census is also used to determine the number of representatives in an area.  They don't want their districts eliminated.

[anubias]

Of course.  While they prevent Republicans from redrawing disctrict lines, the Dims will use the illegals to redraw them.

The illegals will mostly lie anyway.

[Hoodat]

Each time the census workers come by asking questions, the ONLY thing I give them is my citizenship.  When they ask the racial makeup of those living in my house, I say "American".  When they ask the gender, I say "American".  When they ask the age, I say "American".

[Fishrrman]

"Dem AGs press Trump officials not to include citizenship question in census"

All the more reason to do exactly that!