Tomorrow is the last day of the current term of the Supreme Court. That means that we should get decisions in the final five cases pending before the Court this term. At 10 tomorrow morning, we will learn whether or not the Supreme Court will buy into the nonsense that it was somehow improper for the Secretary of Commerce to decide to ask those answering the census about their citizenship status as has been done in the census since 1810. The left has done its best to make it seem as if this is some sort of a racist move by the government to continue to ask the citizenship question, but the Supreme Court is unlikely to fall for that nonsense.
The funny thing about all this is that the Democrats oppose asking the question because they claim it will reduce the number of illegals who will respond to the census. By law, however, the census bureau is barred from releasing any data on individuals obtained in the census. Only aggregate numbers can be disclosed. What that means is that by raising the level of hysteria about what the census takers will do with the data they obtain, the Democrats are actually suppressing the number of illegals who will respond when census time comes around. If the Dems had just kept their mouths shut, essentially no one would have avoided the census takers. Now that the Dems have been screaming about this for the last year, there will certainly be many who will refuse to answer out of fear. That fear will be there whether or not the citizenship question is included.
The funny thing about all this is that the Democrats oppose asking the question because they claim it will reduce the number of illegals who will respond to the census. By law, however, the census bureau is barred from releasing any data on individuals obtained in the census. Only aggregate numbers can be disclosed. What that means is that by raising the level of hysteria about what the census takers will do with the data they obtain, the Democrats are actually suppressing the number of illegals who will respond when census time comes around. If the Dems had just kept their mouths shut, essentially no one would have avoided the census takers. Now that the Dems have been screaming about this for the last year, there will certainly be many who will refuse to answer out of fear. That fear will be there whether or not the citizenship question is included.
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