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Counting On Illegal Aliens
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 4:20 PM PT

Who Counts?: The next U.S. census chief wants to count people who aren’t
there. The acting director wants to count people who shouldn’t be here.
And Acorn will help do the counting.

Back when he was the Census Bureau’s associate director of statistical
design, Robert M. Groves, nominated to be the next director of the bureau,
recommended that the 1990 census be statistically adjusted to correct an
alleged undercount of minorities in urban areas — areas that tend to vote
heavily Democratic.

Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher overruled him, saying the use of
“statistical sampling,” as it’s known, was a form of “political
tampering.” The Supreme Court later ruled in 1999 that statistical
sampling couldn’t be used to apportion House seats among the states, but
didn’t rule out using estimates to redraw district lines within a state.

Statistical sampling is a technique akin to polling. You select what you
consider a representative sample and extrapolate your findings over the
general population.

The problem is that Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution forbids
it. It requires an “actual enumeration” of all Americans every 10 years,
not a guess based on statistical sampling. That means counting real, live,
breathing people. The Founding Fathers weren’t fools. Sampling techniques
have changed, but human nature has not.

If the Census Bureau were allowed to use sampling, it would have to
develop formulas for its samples. How you structure the formula affects
the results. It’s possible a party in power might determine the desired
result first, then determine the sampling formula needed to achieve it.

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke says there are no plans to use statistical
sampling in the 2010 census, but there will be enormous pressure to do so.
Remember that Judd Gregg withdrew his nomination to be Commerce Secretary
when plans to run the census out of the White House under Chief of Staff
Rahm Emmanuel were revealed.

On April 1, Secretary Locke joined several activist groups, including the
National Council of La Raza and the League of United Latin American
Citizens, at a press conference to talk about efforts to ensure a full
count of Latinos in the 2010 census.

After the press conference, acting director Thomas Mesenbourg said the
Census Bureau intended to reach out to illegal aliens through “trusted”
community organizations.

“It’s more than just the Census Bureau telling them that it’s safe,” said
Mesenbourg. “We need somebody that they view as a trusted voice — somebody
in a community organization that can assure them it’s safe.”

One of those trusted organizations, the Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now, infamous for its documented participation in
vote fraud, signed on as a national partner with the Census Bureau in
February. It will help recruit the 1.4 million temporary workers needed to
go door to door. Acorn has helped ensure “people” like Mary Poppins and
Jive Turkey were registered to vote. We wouldn’t want the census to miss
them.

Groves has spent decades researching how to improve response rates, and
apparently one of the ways being considered is to remind people of the
federal goodies that come along with being counted.

Page 24 of the Census Bureau’s 351-page 2010 plan for the census advises
that “messages that increase knowledge of the benefits of filling out the
Census improve motivation and favorability towards Census participation.”
People should be reminded that the “Census determines how over $300
billion per year in federal funds get divided among states and local areas
of the country.”

This is even if the people are illegally here or are just estimated to be
here.

The nation depends on an accurate count of who and where we are. But it
shouldn’t be used to create a permanent class dependent on government and
the drawing of lines to create a permanent Democratic majority.