Posted on 08/17/2007 5:48:54 AM PDT by OCCASparky
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WASHINGTON The Census Bureau wants immigration agents to suspend enforcement raids during the 2010 census so the government can better count illegal immigrants.
Raids during the population count would make an already distrustful group even less likely to cooperate with government workers who are supposed to include them, the Census Bureau's second-ranking official said in an Associated Press interview.
Deputy Director Preston Jay Waite said immigration enforcement officials did not conduct raids for several months before and after the 2000 census. But today's political climate is even more volatile on the issue of illegal immigration.
Enforcement agents "have a job to do," Waite said. "They may not be able to give us as much of a break" in 2010.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman declined to say whether immigration officials would halt raids. "If we were, we wouldn't talk about it," Pat Reilly said.
"For us to suspend that enforcement would probably take a lot more than one meeting," Reilly said. "We would have to discuss this at the highest levels of both agencies."
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Do notice that they said that it would be harder to get Immigration to “give them a break” during 2010 than it was during 2000.
There is a lot of grassroots pressure to do something about the illegals this time around, which was NOT present during 2000.
Massachusetts, for one, wants them included so that they don’t lose one of their sterling congress-critters.
Stop raids so that there are more illegals to say they are legitmate Americans. No Way!
Exactly. These government bureaucrats are so dumb, it's pathetic. Any illegal with half a brain is not going to give a census taker any information.
If you can COUNT them you can ARREST and DEPORT them.
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