[Coleus]

FAST FACTS

The boycott called by the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders is being closely watched around the country.

• Population and income information gathered by the Census every 10 years is used to calculate how the federal government distributes funding for thousands of programs, including transit and highway safety grants, food and nutrition programs, crime victim assistance, bulletproof vests for police and anti-gang initiatives.
• The Census also is used to determine how the 435 seats in the House of Representatives are apportioned among the 50 states. Because New Jersey's population has been growing slower than that of the rest of the country's, the state could lose one of its 13 seats after the 2010 Census, and some state officials are pressing for an aggressive marketing effort to get people to respond to Census takers so every person in the state can be counted.
• CONLAMIC has grown infuential in recent years, boasting a membership of more than 20,000 churches in 34 states.
• Latino groups are divided over the boycott. Some say participating in it will result in an undercount that will deprive areas with large immigrant populations of crucial funds. Others say the boycott is needed to underscore the urgency for comprehensive immigration reform legislation.
• The Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey, a coalition of some of the state’s leading Hispanic groups, says it sympathizes with CONLAMIC’s reasons for leading the boycott, and will decide at a meeting whether to formally endorse it. LLANJ is a partner organization of the Census Bureau.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Counting non-citizens in the census is like counting three fifths of the slaves prior to Emancipation.

If you're not a citizen, you have no representation in the Congress. Period.

[ought-six]

Sounds like the latino clergy are racists.

[South40]

[metmom]

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[Joann37]

“If undocumented immigrants are valuable enough to be counted in the Census, then they ought to be legalized.”

I agree!

Don’t count them, and don’t legalize them. Back to Mexico they go!

[gubamyster]

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[NewRomeTacitus]

Rivera argues that by participating in the Census, illegal immigrants help their communities receive more attention and funding, yet they hardly benefit in return.

That's odd, as illegal aliens manage to absorb far more resources than citizens and legal immigrants despite their habit of avoiding census takers.

“Over one million undocumented immigrants from our churches alone will be absentee from the Census,” Rivera said. “If we get to the end of the year and we include the documented in the boycott, it will be many, many more people.”

I, for one, wouldn't consider "one million" illegal sheeple following one delusional pastor's orders to be good candidates for citizenship.

Englewood Mayor Michael Wildes, chairman of the Immigration Task Force of the New Jersey League of Municipalities. “[Politicians] want to reach for certain numbers [for resources] then don’t want to give these people driver’s licenses, which would allow them to earn a living wage."

No, Mayor Wildes, the citizens you're supposed to be serving don't want illegals granted licenses. If you weren't so far up the collective butt of your largest contributors your ears would be free to hear your constituants.

And what a magic trick! The bogus 12 million number of illegals bandied about for the last seven years has GONE DOWN to 11 million. Hooray for the Ministry of Information!