Posted by
Always To The Right on Monday, August 10, 2009 1:48:59 PM
Our unconstitutional census: When illegal aliens count for Congress
Next year’s census will determine the apportionment of House members
and Electoral College votes for each state. To accomplish these vital
constitutional purposes, the enumeration should count only citizens and
persons who are legal, permanent residents. But it won’t.
Instead, the U.S. Census Bureau is set to count all persons
physically present in the country—including large numbers who are here
illegally. The result will unconstitutionally increase the number of
representatives in some states and deprive some other states of their
rightful political representation. Citizens of “loser” states should be
outraged. Yet few are even aware of what’s going on.
The 2010 census will use only the short form. The long form has been
replaced by the Census Bureau’s ongoing American Community Survey. Dr.
Elizabeth Grieco, chief of the Census Bureau’s Immigration Statistics
Staff, told us in a recent interview that the 2010 census short form
does not ask about citizenship because “Congress has not asked us to do
that.”