I DON’T UNDERSTAND THE flap over asking “The Citizenship Question” on the census.
The question was on previous census forms.
The census forms are anonymous.
I’M A CITIZEN. Actually, I am a dual-national. I was, as the song goes, “Born in the U.S.A.” to U.S. citizens and can go back several generations in America.
My wife is a naturalized American citizen.
We both will answer the citizenship question if it is on the form.
I know some people who are not U.S. citizens.
They are here on work visas, Green Cards, student visas, and so on.
Bottom line: They are here. Legally.
Those that work (legally) pay taxes and Social Security and Medicare, benefits those here for a relatively short period will not enjoy.
On the other hand, they DO benefit from the country in many ways.
It is a two-way street.
So why are the leftists screaming about a simple census question: Are you a citizen of the U.S.A.?
Perhaps the leftists feel that illegals will be identified for what they are if they respond to the census.
But illegals WON’T respond to the census. They will be “away from home” or have some other excuse if a live person tries to interview them (vs. the more typical questionnaire in the mail).
- It is against the law for any Census Bureau employee to disclose or publish any census or survey information that identifies an individual or business. This is true even for inter-agency communication: the FBI and other government entities do not have the legal right to access this information. In fact, when these protections have been challenged, Title 13's confidentiality guarantee has been upheld. (Emphasis mine.)1
There can be a penalty for failing to respond to the census; however, no penalties have been levied since at least the 1970 census.
- The Census Bureau likes to stress the positive benefits of participation in the survey, but the proverbial stick does exist. Under Title 13 of the U.S. Code, you can be fined up to $100 for refusing to complete a census form and $500 for answering questions falsely. However, the Website for the U.S. Census Bureau points out that the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 effectively increased these minimum fines to $5,000. Noncompliance used to bring the possibility of a 60-day prison sentence and a one-year prison term for false answers, but Congress struck those provisions in 1976.2
Granted, the census can be used to “guesstimate” the number of illegals in the country by comparing municipal head counts and welfare demand to the number of people — citizens or not — answering the census. Cities claiming to be “sanctuary” cities undoubtedly will fall into this category. That’s OK since the municipality’s tax payers are paying for the privilege of hosting illegals.
Interestingly, the leftists seem focused on Latino illegals, ignoring all others.
There are illegals from many countries in the U.S. Many simply overstayed their visa Some not only managed to work but to build a business that employed others, citizens and fellow illegals.
The leftists’ interest in the Latino illegals might be because so many leftists employ Latino illegals.
- If no one employed illegals — from ANY country — the number of illegals could be, would be, drastically reduced. That seems to have escaped the leftists’ mentality.
There ARE people who come to the U.S. because their lives are in danger in their home countries. The U.S. has a long history of welcoming such people; recent examples are Cubans and Vietnamese. (A notable exception were Jews trying to flee from the nazis; Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his State Department made certain the Jews went to their deaths in Europe rather than offer them sanctuary in America.3)
This scrivener is suggesting that the leftists are objecting to the citizenship question because they want to keep their under-paid serfs — Latinos — in semi-bondage. They know the illegals cannot seek employment elsewhere sans either proof of citizenship or permission to work in the U.S.
- U.S. citizens must prove their right to work in the U.S. when they complete a Form I-9 for employers. Employers failing to have a Form I-9 for each employee can be fined. As of August of 2016, fines for all Form I-9 compliance violations had doubled from their previous levels. Those fines now range from $110 to $1,100 per violation up to a range of $216 to $2,156—not per individual form, but per error or omission on that form. 4
Bottom line: I fail to understand why asking if I am a U.S. citizen is so unconscionable; what has got the leftists so upset? Because President Trump wants the question included does that mean that the leftists automatically, in knee jerk reaction, oppose the questions.
Or does it just seem that way?
Sources
1. http://tinyurl.com/yy8ebjy3
2. http://tinyurl.com/y54mkz3h
3. http://tinyurl.com/y35dutpg
4. http://tinyurl.com/yxf99v5k
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