Oct 302009
 
Tell your Senator "Don't Wreck the Census"

BY JOAQUIN GUERRA “Some politicians come up with dumb ideas. Some come up with impractical ideas that would cost taxpayers millions of dollars. And then there are those lawmakers with crazy proposals that would violate the United States Constitution.” Republican Senators Vitter and Bennett hit the trifecta by trying to wreck the US Census. In yet another attempt to marginalize U.S. immigrants and inject hate into politics, Senators David Vitter (LA-R) and Bob Bennett (UT-R) introduced an amendment to the Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations bill that would require questions in the 2010 census on immigration status They’ve filed an amendment to the Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations bill that would strip funds from the Census Bureau — if they MORE