The purpose of the census is two-fold. Apportionment of representation in Congress and allocation of funding. Representation is based on citizens, not total population. Allocation of funding on total population is necessary also. Obama weaponized it by removing the question.
The purpose of the census is to get a full and accurate count of the U.S. population. Adding a citizenship question to the census is nothing more than a blatant attempt to undermine that and weaponize the census. We won’t stand for it.https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1147163599040851969 …
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It's also used to determine the number of nursing homes in a county and state.
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Counting who is actually legally here and allowed to vote in our elections is not wrong. Counting people who may not be here legally to keep funding and electoral votes seems wrong to me. The ones squawking the most seem to be sanctuary cities and states.
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The question asks if the person is a citizen. Many people who are here legally are not citizens. We still need to know number of people using roads, police, fire etc. regardless. Unfortunately so much of this discussion assumes if you are not a citizen, you are illegal.
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It's not asking if they are illegal or illegal, just if they are citizens or not. There will be no rounding up of people. Don't you want your representation to be based on voting citizens?
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We have a right to know how many citizens there are versus non-citizens.
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Isn’t that what the Census has always been about? Getting accurate minority, children, wage and citizenship stats to use for distric redraws and election manipulation? I thought that’s what it was always for. Not like it’s used to help with infrastructure, taxation or needs
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Forgive me if that was sarcasm but do your research dude lolhttps://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/censuses.html …
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We had the question for 190 years. Obama removed it in 2010. Jefferson suggested putting it in the census. Of course most peeps don't know this. Likely including YOU.
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