says Obama-Era Census Director

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...s-a-tremendous-risk/

The Census Bureau’s former director, John Thompson, — who served between 2013 and 2017 until he abruptly resigned — told CityLab that putting the citizenship question back on the U.S. Census for 2020 would be detrimental

“There are great risks that including that question, particularly in the atmosphere that we’re in today, will result in an undercount, not just of non-citizen populations but other populations that are concerned with what could happen to them,” Thompson said. “That is a tremendous risk.”

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BS. We need to know how many non-citizens are in the country

and why should non-citizens count towards congressional districts ?

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Right now, congressional districts are drawn up simply based on the number of warm bodies in each district. Not only are legal aliens counted, but illegal aliens are counted too. As a result, citizens in a district with lots of illegal aliens have more voting power than citizens in districts with few illegal aliens

Think of it this way. There are about 710,000 people in each congressional district. But, if half of the district is made up of illegal aliens, then there are only 355,000 citizens in the district. The value of each citizen’s vote in such a district is twice as high

Should the 2020 Census return to asking U.S. residents if they are American citizens, the public will know for the first time since 1950 just how many citizens are in the country

California politicians are particularly fearful of the 2020 Census counting American citizens because it could likely lead to a reduction in the state’s representation in Congress, as well as a loss in federal funding, as there are likely over three million illegal aliens living in the state.

I've been asked that question hundreds of times when driving on US90, and I-10. And it hasn't been any more than a nuisance. If the government can ask people traveling down the highway that question, what's wrong with putting it on the Census form? Certainly not a tremendous risk, unless you're a democrat trying to pull the wool over someone's eyes.

Government statistics are always nonsense.

A census that counted everyone would be complete nonsense.

I can't wait to get another one of those census packages that aren't really the Census as specifed in the Constitution. They say I must answer, under penalty of law.

Y'know, even cheap paper gets really soft when you crumple it up enough. Soft enough even to use it to wipe your ass.

Why would anyone care what some nitwit who worked for Barry The Wonder Putz thinks about anything?

The real issue is whether they add the citizenship question or not

as far as I know that has not been determined

I strongly feel the question should be on every census taken

Kris Kobach has raised an issue that I never thought of.

If the census doesn't identify how many illegals there are in a congressional district then no one knows how many legal voters there are in that district.

For example, if a district had 50% illegals, then the true number of voting eligible citizens is half the number that would be reported. Voting districts run around 770,000 people. You could have tens of thousand false votes, but it would still look like the total number of votes was within the perceived number of eligible voters.



http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...tes-for-2020-census/

Kobach’s recommendation to Trump was so specific that it even included the exact question and multiple choice options that he says need to be placed on the 2020 Census in order to prevent “vote dilution,” whereby illegal aliens and legal immigrants are counted, giving the illusion that congressional representatives have more voting-eligible constituents than they actually do.