Posted on 07/12/2018 8:42:40 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Now the illegal aliens are trying to claim they are being treated as 3/5 a person...black slaves...
Do facts matter to anyone?
Nobody is seeking to exclude illegal aliens from the census. What they plan to do, is ask if people are US citizens.
Asking a question about citizenship is not excluding anyone from the census.
You are ZERO-fifths of a person, Illega.
You wanna go to Civil War over it, bitch?
They ARE being counted. We want to know how many citizens and how many illegal aliens
*rolls eyes*
Well, if they are here illegally, then they won't answer, and we will get an accurate count of citizens. And if they answer that they are not citizens, we get an accurate count of citizens. So, unless they lie, we get an accurate count. I don't see the problem, unless you want fraud.
Yep. When blacks were freed after the 1st civil war, they were made citizens by law. Big difference.
I treat them as 2 /5 ths
Asking a question about citizenship is not excluding anyone from the census
Why is it reporters can find a gathering of illegals but ICE is nowhere to be found?
“Even more contemptible, the current administration cannot be trusted to defend against the sordid lawsuit because the president and other administration officials regularly treat immigrants, in rhetoric and in practice, as less than human.”
There are about 7 billion people in the world, and virtually all of them are affected by the outcome of US elections. Shouldn’t they all be allowed to choose our President? Why should they have to go through the inconvenience of traveling here? Doesn’t their exclusion from the census make them “less than human”?
Since the census is used to apportion representation in Congress, and since only citizens are legally authorized to vote for those representatives, being able to count actual citizens, separate from illegals, sounds like a good idea to me.
Might seem like a good idea, but it would not really be following the Constitution. At the time it was adopted, women, slaves, many men, & children could not vote, yet they were still counted (if only 3/5s in the case of slaves) to apportion representation. To count only citizens for representation would require an amendment, I think.
the 3/5ths decision was a victory for the abolitionists.
only counting citizens is a defeat for the open borders crowd.
If they want representation they should go home, but then of course Mexicans still vote in Mexicos elections even when their U.S. citizens, don’t they? It’s funny, or not, I thought that a naturalized citizen had renounce all loyalty to foreign governments.
They do...
I had to raise my right hand and swear that I renounced my allegiance from my prior country New Zealand BEFORE I was allowed to be naturalized as an American citizen...it was part of the legal process...there is no such thing as dual citizenship in America...
Dear States,
If you want people who are residing in this country illegally to remain in your state. You pay for them.
Good points.
In my opinion, everyone should be counted, but at the same time, we should know how many non citizens are here.
Just because someone is not a citizen, doesn’t mean that someone is here illegally.
If I recall correctly, after previous censuses, the census bureau issued estimates of the numbers of people who were not counted.
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