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What do people think about this?Advocates Want Halt on Immigration Raids to Ensure Accurate Census?
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Advocates Want Halt on Immigration Raids to Ensure Accurate Census
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/06/advocates-want-halt-immigration-raids-ensure-accurate-census/
Some lawmakers are calling anew for the U.S. to relax its immigration laws -- not to provide sanctuary to illegal immigrants, but to ensure statistical accuracy.
The calls come as the Census Bureau prepares to kick off the 2010 Census. Critics argue that unless the government is willing to relax immigration laws, millions of people -- afraid to their share their personal information -- will be left out of the count.
U.S. Rep. William Clay, D-Mo., who chairs a House oversight subcommittee on the Census, said he plans to ask the Obama administration to suspend immigration raids over the next year.
He wants the raids put on hold so illegal immigrants don't worry that sharing accurate information with Census workers could somehow expose them to punishment, even deportation.
"There are many people -- Hispanics, African-Americans, whites, Asians -- who have an irrational fear of government, who distrust government, who don't believe that if they give the federal government personal information, that that information is not going to be confidential," said Arturo Vargas, of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.
The kind of move Clay is proposing has been done before -- in 2000, and even earlier.
Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, was working for the border patrol ahead of the 1990 Census when the orders came down to suspend some enforcement efforts.
"It distorts the count because people might be apprehensive about answering the door, or reporting accurately how many people are living in a house or residence or an apartment, or those kinds of things -- at least that was the rationale," Reyes explained.
But the call to pull back the reins on immigration enforcement is opposed by many of Clay's colleagues, including the ranking Republican on the House oversight committee.
"We're not talking about one day of not doing raids. We're talking about a period of time. Is that a week, a month or a whole year? We cannot suspend law enforcement," said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
The Obama administration has sought a freeze on arrests of illegal immigrants, upending an enforcement policy that was in widespread use during the last years of the Bush administration.
There has only been one mass arrest of immigrants since Obama took office, which came as a shock to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who ordered a review of the incident. All but one of the illegal immigrants arrested in the February raid were released and given legal work permits.
Opponents of the move to relax immigration laws say that given the national security threats facing the nation, asking law enforcement officers not to do their jobs is not an option.
Republicans estimate the government will spend tens of millions of dollars this year targeting immigrant communities with the message that anything they share with the Census Bureau will not be used against them.
FOX News' Shannon Bream contributed to this report.
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Rob
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Anything that makes life less pleasant for illegal aliens is fantastic! We must remove the incentive for them to come here in the first place. The problem with counting illegal aliens in the census is that those numbers are used to allocate electoral college votes. This causes states like California to be disproportionately over represented in the House and other states to be disproportionately under represented. Illegals are killing our nation. If illegal contribute as much as their advocates claim, then why is California running a $12 billion budget deficit and L.A. one of the highest crime areas in the nation. ILLEGALS. |
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Sasori
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Those here illegally do not deserve representation. That is the right and privilege of an american citizen.
They should not be counted and raids should continue. These raids are needed to stop those stealing soc sec #s and using fake or stolen IDs. Get them out of here! |
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spirit dummy
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The Census Bureau assumes everyone is in the US legally. Also, respondents can remain anonymous if they wish. Also, the Census Bureau doesn't share the information it gathers with anyone outside the Census Bureau which means no other government agency has access to the data except in final statistical form.. There are brochures in many languages explaining this. |
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LeighAnn D
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Oh no! If they don't go through with it then where will you guys get your info from! |
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GreasyTony
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Just another way to try and make people against illegal immigrants. A way into scaring others that they will come and have rights to vote......all this negativety comes from Anti-Obama groups.
Anything coming out of "Center of Immigration Studies (CIS)" is hard to believe when it's a product of John Tanton......a man whom has been at the heart of the white nationalist movement for decades. The report reveals that Tanton, who still sits on FAIR’s board of directors, founded the racist Social Contract Press and has corresponded with Holocaust deniers, white nationalist intellectuals and Klan lawyers for decades – correspondence documented by his own writings stored at a University of Michigan library.
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/02/03...
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