Is this person a citizen of the United States?
This is the controversial question that will appear on the next United States Census in 2020. You can answer three ways, by Birth (in the US, in a US territory, in any country but born to US parents), Naturalized, or No. Seems easy enough. The leftists have their panties up in a bunch with this easy question.
The House of Representatives will be holding hearings about this question because some RETARDED DEMOCRATS oppose the question. RETARDED former USAG Eric Holder is leading a lawsuit to squash this HORRIFIC question. Here in the PRK this stupid state is also suing to stop this question.
Why is the left in hysterics? They say it will be unfair because Congressional seats AND ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES are based upon the number of CITIZENS that reside in districts and somehow the CENSUS will UNDER COUNT CITIZENS. Additionally Federal funding apportioned to states is based on the number of CITIZENS in each state. Hmmm, seems to me that an accurate count of CITIZENS would be useful. How do they do it now? They ESTIMATE how many CITIZENS reside in each state.
The argument is that this CITIZENSHIP question is designed to decrease representation and funding in states with large numbers of ILLEGAL aliens. The intelligentsia of these bastions of sanctuary policies are arguing that CITIZENS who live with or in IMMIGRANT households will be afraid of giving information to the government and these states will lose Federal dollars and voting power.
Okay, how many CITIZENS will be AFRAID to answer YES? How many LEGAL IMMIGRANTS will be AFRAID to answer NO? I’d say about ZERO in each CATEGORY. How many ILLEGAL ALIENS would answer NO? This is where it gets questionable.
Now some Constitutional background. ILLEGAL ALIENS have already broken FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAWS. They are NOT entitled to FEDERAL REPRESENTATION in government NOR are they entitled to FEDERAL FUNDING.
An ILLEGAL ALIEN can answer TRUTHFULLY which would be NO, or they can FALSELY claim that they are a United States CITIZEN. The count for representation purposes can only be HIGHER than the TRUE number! Why would the left be upset with this? Sound puzzling? The question can legally ONLY HELP states with large ILLEGAL ALIEN populations.
What’s the penalty if an ILLEGAL ALIEN were to FALSELY answer the CITIZENSHIP question? The fine is $100. Of course first they would need to catch the ILLEGAL and then PROVE that they perjured their answer. I’m fairly certain that the Commerce Department won’t be cross checking every ILLEGAL arrested with how they answered the CENSUS. I did a quick search and HOW MANY people have EVER been prosecuted for violating the CENSUS law? How about ZERO, nada, no one. Not one person has ever been fined for violating the CENSUS LAW!
In 2012 the Orange County (Calif.) Register reported, ” … quoting a bureau spokeswoman, Jennifer Smits, saying that nobody had been fined for failing to participate to date. By telephone, bureau spokeswoman Stacy Gimbel Vidal told us that remains so; no fines have been levied. The bureau, she said, is ‘really not in the business of prosecuting people who don’t comply.’ ”
To recap, the CENSUS can only FALSELY COUNT a higher number of CITIZENS. The CENSUS CANNOT UNDER COUNT CITIZENS.
The only conclusion we can draw from this drama is that the ESTIMATES of CITIZENS in sanctuary states is MUCH HIGHER than the actual number of CITIZENS and those in power KNOW THIS and want to maintain their unfair representation in CONGRESS and the ELECTORAL College as well as continuing to STEAL taxpayer money.
Taking a line from Al Gore, “An inconvenient TRUTH“.