Senate Dems Block “Are You A Citizen?” From 2010 Census
We will be fed the usual politically-correct liberal-democrat bs that asking whether someone is a citizen or not is ‘insensitive’.
It is, in fact, a blatant power-play, intended to boost metropolitan numbers for congressional redistricting, generate billions more in federal grants to democrat-controlled cities and pander to the Hispanic bloc.
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats have blocked a GOP attempt to require next year’s census forms to ask people whether they are a U.S. citizen.
The proposal by Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter was aimed at excluding immigrants from the population totals that are used to figure the number of congressional representatives for each state. Critics said Vitter’s plan would discourage immigrants from responding to the census and would be hugely expensive. They also said that it’s long been settled law that the apportionment of congressional seats is determined by the number of people living in each state, regardless of whether they are citizens. A separate survey already collects the data.
The plan fell after a 60-39 procedural vote made it ineligible for attachment to a bill funding the census.
This is nothing less than a direct, blatant assault on the very meaning and intent of citizenship; a disgrace of monstrous proportions.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_go_co/us_congress_counting_immigrants_1
