USCIS official suggests census citizenship question could help with 'burden' of illegal immigration

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op USCIS official suggests census citizenship question could help with ‘burden’ of illegal immigration

By Colby Itkowitz and Maria Sacchetti at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-uscis-official-suggests-census-citizenship-question-could-help-with-burden-of-illegal-immigration/2019/07/05/4a173a6e-9f25-11e9-9ed4-c9089972ad5a_story.html?utm_term=.e4432625199e

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President Trump’s acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director, Ken Cuccinelli, on Friday seemed to add confusion to the White House’s position on including a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, saying it would help “with the burden of those who are not here legally.”

It’s unclear exactly what Cuccinelli meant. The Trump administration’s stated reason for wanting to ask about a person’s citizenship on the 2020 questionnaire has been to get a better sense of the voting population, not to gauge legal status.

But Cuccinelli, appearing on Fox News Business, suggested otherwise.

“Frankly, as part of the ongoing debate over how we deal financially and legally with the burden of those who are not here legally,” Cuccinelli said, listing the justifications for the census question. “That is a relevant issue.”


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They are going to use it as a wedge issue.

[dchill]

1. Ken Cuccinelli. Need anyone say more?

[alwaysinasnit]

2. I think Cuccinelli is related to Rep. Steve King of Iowa. You know, brothers from a different mother

[Caliman73]

3. You know what would help with the burden of immigration?

For the United States to stop messing around in Latin America, helping to overthrow democratically elected governments, protecting corporate profits by keeping exploitative labor practices in place in corrupt governments, to stop arming right wing death squads and supporting decades lasting civil wars, oh, and developing a sane holistic approach to drugs instead of keeping the black market going which gives enormous power to narcotics traffickers.