Comments by "ke6gwf - Ben Blackburn" (@ke6gwf) on "Trump Says He May Issue Executive Order to Add Census Citizenship Question" video.

  1. Short version is, the Republicans are planning to use the results to redistrict Congressional districts to their benefit. The people who most likely will check Not US Citizen are Hispanic, and so when the Republicans go to redistrict next time, they will gerrymander using that data, because Hispanics tend to be in liberal areas, so it's like an indicator what areas to remove representation from. Also, people who are not citizens, even if they are here legally, are going to tend to be afraid of the census because of that question, and be less likely to participate and return the form, leading to a massive undercount. And since the core purpose of the Census is to count the number of people in the country, and all the other questions are just bonus questions above and beyond the core purpose, if an extra question reduces the accuracy of the core data, it is going against the reason that the Census was required in the first place. And the Census Bureau themselves are opposed to adding the question for this very reason, they are positive it will lead to serious under counts, which is bad, because that effects distribution of money, congressional seats, and many other factors that rely on an accurate count of heads, not just eligible voters.
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  2.  @notquiteordinary  no, congressional districts are based on the number of people in the state, babies, felons, student visas, work permits, illegals, insane, etc. It has nothing to do with the number of voters, it is simply a count of the residents. So trying to say that I want illegals to vote is just showing that either you don't understand the subject, or that you are trying to use false claims to try to scare people into accepting your position.
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  3. @#1 Mawg it's the citizens who lose out on government services such as roads and transportation subsidies, school funding, health services etc, if not everyone is counted, so if you want your local school to get the correct funding levels, and you want your local roads to be well maintained, then you will want everyone to be counted.
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  4. Garin, in these comments you can see the type of people who want the question on there, and the type of people who don't think it's a good idea. Notice how the people who want the question want to use it to get rid of the generations of hard working people who make our brick walls, clean up after us, harvest our food, and clean Trump's resorts? Instead of finding a way to allow the people who are employed and contributing members of society, the very type of people who keep this country running, to be able to become legal, they have pinned their hopes on getting rid of the backbone of this country, thinking that it will make their problems go away, when all it will do is rear tear communities apart and make everything more expensive at the grocery store.
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  5.  @joshuagarner1654  then you should propose a constitutional ammendment and start campaigning for it if you think that you have a better idea than the Founders. But for things like school funding, it should be based on the number of people in the area, because that is the best representation of the number of people being served.
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