Posted on 08/04/2020 6:43:19 PM PDT by AirForceVet1988
The Census Bureau will finish collecting data next month so it can deliver population tallies to President Donald Trump by the end of the year, and will meet his order to exclude undocumented immigrants.
In a statement late Monday reported by Politico, Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham announced measures intended “to accelerate the completion of data collection and apportionment counts” by Dec. 31 and will stop “field data collection” by Sept. 30. Dillingham also said the bureau “continues its work on meeting the requirements” of Trump’s order to calculate the number of congressional seats each state will have in the next decade without taking undocumented immigrants into account.
Census results are used to calculate federal funding and evaluate the number of seats each state has in the House of Representatives, and the exclusion of undocumented migrants will likely help Republicans in future elections. But it’s unclear how they can be excluded, as the Census questionnaires were distributed back in March without a citizenship question.
One would think the Census would need MORE time due to the ongoing pandemic, but what do I know ?
Wrap Up Count Early and Will Meet Trump’s Order to Exclude ILLEGAL ALIENS
The Delusional Lying Lefts always uses words to obfuscate and confuse the truth. They are not “Undocumented Migrants” they are ILLEGAL ALIENS.
The truth and the Left always were strangers.
The NM governor said nobody was allowed to go door to door to campaign so I guess that goes for the census takers, too.
California’s EV to plummet...
CA could lose a handful of congressional seats.
He did more than that.....Trump's DOJ needs to look into Obama-era census finagling-----the first move the Kenyan
made when he crawled into DC from Chicago's Democrat gutters was to put the Census under his total control.
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humanevents.com
2/12/09
Controlling the Census: The Obama Administration’s Power Grab
Martha Zoller | Thursday Feb 12, 2009 3:01 AM
"The American people deserve a non-partisan census in 2010, and we hope the committee will ensure that goal comes to fruition by holding an oversight hearing on the administration’s potential plans to reduce the future secretary of commerce’s authority over the agency," Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) in a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee
The preservation and expansion of the Democrat majority is the only reason the Obama Administration is exercising its power and taking over the Census. Last week, without much fanfare, The White House moved control of the Census from the Commerce Department to the Executive Branch. The Democrats want to use “sampling” to add to the counts in urban areas homeless people and minorities that they believe will be under counted. The Supreme Court shot down the idea of “sampling” in the last Census, but the Obama Administration is going to tee it up again and see if it flies.
In the last Census, congressional seats moved from states that were losing population in the North and Northeast, to states that were gaining population in the South, Southwest and Mountain regions of America. That is a loss of power from generally Democrat strongholds to more likely Republican areas. That population trend is expected to continue which means more seats out of Blue States into Red States.
That’s why before the ink was even dry on the announcement of Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) as Commerce Secretary, the Congressional Black Caucus and Latino groups were complaining that a Republican could not be in control of the census. Instead of supporting Gregg and letting the confirmation process vet this issue, the White House immediately caved and gave the power of oversight of the Census to the White House and indicated that Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel would be in charge.
Not only is this the wrong political move to make, it may also be unconstitutional. It is the duty of the Congress to take the Census every 10 years and through a law passed in Congress, it gives the power to execute the Census to the Commerce Department. If Congress has established — by law — that Commerce has the responsibility, the White House can’t override that law. If it does so, the action is illegal and unconstitutional to boot.
It would be helpful to know what Senator Gregg has to say about this but so far he hasn’t commented. Maybe he received a dead fish in the mail from Mr. Emanuel. Many suspect that he didn’t see this coming but it is seen by most as a slap in the face to the integrity of Senator Gregg and the Commerce Department. Controversy over this isn’t new and that’s why a letter was sent last year to the President signed by every Census Director since Nixon supporting a bill to make the Census Bureau an independent agency.
The directors believe they could be more effective if they could deal directly with Congress and there’s a Constitutional argument to back that up. New York Democrat, Carolyn Maloney is the bill’s chief sponsor — so this is a bipartisan issue. Many people, who won’t go on the record, are afraid of a Census process that is overseen by one of the most hyperpartisan people of our generation, Rahm Emanuel.
The Obama administration is quickly adopting the Chicago way of governing by fear. First the fear of economic collapse, which with the announcements and proclamations on a daily basis of doom and gloom seem to be riling the markets. Now they want to instill the fear that Republicans want to ignore minorities and the homeless in the Census count. To strip the Commerce Department of this responsibility just because a Republican is appointed to the position is a pretty sad state of affairs. But it’s only the beginning. This is not a “post-partisan” White House.
I’m a bit old school on the Census. I believe it should be a count and that’s it. The data derived from asking whether you have indoor plumbing or how many bedrooms you have is interesting, but not a part of the Census (and frankly none of the government’s business). The Census affects every aspect of how government asserts its power over us: the way our votes count — toward one congressman or another — results from the census. It provides the raw data by which government spending is allocated on everything from roads to schools. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also uses the Census to prepare the economic data that businesses rely on.
"The real issue is who directs the Census, the pros or the pols," says Bruce Chapman, who was director of the Census in the Reagan/Bush Era. "You would think an administration that’s thumping its chest about respecting science would show a little respect for scientists in the statistical field."
Did the 2020 Census Questionnaire ask if a person is a citizen being counted is a citizen?
No
Dont worry they are all set to sue
Wait - I might be wrong - they could not ask if people were here illegally
But it’s unclear how they can be excluded, as the Census questionnaires were distributed back in March without a citizenship question.
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Statistical methods based on other government data will be used. If the reporter was any good, or honest, he or she would know that.
CA could lose a handful of congressional seats.
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And a lot of money.
We ask questions about a person’s place of birth, citizenship, and year of entry into the United States to create data about citizens, noncitizens, and the foreign-born population.
So, if the Census does not ask if a person is a citizen, how do they know who abs who is not a citizen?
Looks like the overtime will be plentiful this year.
In my county we need to count around 60,000 folks that still haven't responded ...
So, if the Census does not ask if a person is a citizen, how do they know who abs who is not a citizen?
Why Is The Census Bureau Still Asking A Citizenship Question On Forms? A citizenship question won't be included on 2020 census forms, but other Census Bureau surveys ask about a person's U.S. citizenship status.Aug 9, 2019
It is unfortunate the pathetic Stupid Party is too dumb or lazy to point this out to the unwashed.
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