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View Poll Results: Should the citizenship question be added on the 2020 Census?
Yes, we need to know! 58 86.57%
No, That question is not appropriate! 9 13.43%
Voters: 67. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 03-27-2018, 07:13 AM
 
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A question about citizenship status will be included on the 2020 Census to help enforce the Voting Rights Act, federal officials said on Monday, but California sued to block the move arguing that it would discourage immigrants from participating.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross decided to add the question to the count after a Department of Justice request based on the desire for better enforcement of the voting law, the U.S. Department of Commerce said in a statement.




California, once again..showing it true colors......




https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-reinsta...021823139.html
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Old 03-27-2018, 01:44 PM
 
Location: Carmichael, CA
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Reality:

Poll:

Did you know that citizenship has been a question on the census every single decade from 1900 through 2010? So it's not actually being "added" at all? Yet you're falling for the "breaking" news stories of what that evil Trump Administration is doing?

This is coming from something they tried in the 2010 census, where selected people got a "short form" census of only 10 questions, while others received the regular long questionnaire. The short form, for whatever reason, did not have a question on citizenship and is believed to have been used to gain additional Congressional representatives (I don't know this for a fact)--as representatives are only supposed to be allotted to citizens. California desperately wants to count illegals to gain members in Congress, which is actually against the Constitution. But hey, we're California.
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Old 03-27-2018, 01:56 PM
 
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This is necessary. People who do not belong here should not be getting federal funds allocated to support them. Communities have become "sanctuary cities" because there is no disparate impact to being otherwise. House seats are allocated based on population. The population should only be LEGAL US RESIDENTS. This is the EXACT REASON why the Democrats in the south wanted to include slaves to allocate representation when the country was founded and the 3/5ths clause was passed.
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Old 03-27-2018, 02:22 PM
 
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Do people really believe illegal aliens fill out their census form or that people are truthful about it.
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Old 03-27-2018, 02:25 PM
 
Location: Colorado
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I can understand why Cali is against this: they don't want to get caught with more votes than citizens.
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Old 03-27-2018, 02:27 PM
 
Location: East Coast of the United States
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U.S. citizens should have superior rights in the U.S. compared to non-U.S. citizens.

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
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Old 03-27-2018, 02:28 PM
 
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I can understand why Cali is against this: they don't want to get caught with more votes than citizens.
so your claim is that there are less then 13.2 million American citizens in California? despite there being 39.5 million.

Wow. thats a impressive amount of self delusion.
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Old 03-27-2018, 02:31 PM
 
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U.S. citizens should have superior rights in the U.S. compared to non-U.S. citizens.

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
Shrug. its obvious that the goal here is to reduce the number counted. The constitution however lays out that it is supposed to count the number of people in a area.

The argument will come down to that it allows this to be done as laid out in the law, but what if the law is designed to not count the number of actual people, but rather to distort it.

I think it will lose on constitutional grounds.
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Old 03-27-2018, 03:06 PM
 
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Shrug. its obvious that the goal here is to reduce the number counted. The constitution however lays out that it is supposed to count the number of people in a area.

The argument will come down to that it allows this to be done as laid out in the law, but what if the law is designed to not count the number of actual people, but rather to distort it.

I think it will lose on constitutional grounds.
The census was created to count the number of AMERICANS to allocate representation. Illegals, tourists, etc. are not to be counted.
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Old 03-27-2018, 03:08 PM
 
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The census was created to count the number of AMERICANS to allocate representation. Illegals, tourists, etc. are not to be counted.
Nobody has to actually answer the citizenship question.

IIRC it's not one of the required ones.
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