This is obviously just a play for the base, there's no way it's anywhere near possible. Plus, I thought one of the reasons behind having a census is so federal monies can be allocated for social services, and those social services are needed for legal as well as illegal residents yes?
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. Census Bureau would ask whether people are in the United States legally under an amendment being considered Wednesday, its sponsors say.
The measure's authors, Republican Sens. David Vitter of Louisiana and Bob Bennett of Utah, say it is meant to ensure that illegal immigrants are not counted in the 2010 Census, which will be used to determine the allocation of congressional seats and representation, USA Today reported.
"Illegal aliens should not be included for the purposes of determining representation in Congress, and that's the bottom line here," Vitter told the newspaper.
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"It's operationally impossible," Steve Jost, Census associate communications director, told USA Today, saying adding new questions at this point would require the forms to be redesigned. "The forms are printed, folded. We have bilingual forms. ... We're printing 1.5 million forms a day."
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