Should Congress tell the U.S. Census Bureau to not count people in the United States illegally?
Skirmishes continue in Congress over the 2010 Census, even as the April 1 census date draws near. In early October, Republican Sens. David Vitter (Louisiana) and Robert Bennett (Utah) put forward an amendment that would require the Census forms to ask people (for the first time) whether they were in the country legally or illegally. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2009-10-13-census_N.htm Following an uproar from the Census Bureau and many Democrats and supporting groups http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2009/10/19/daily11.html?ed=2009-10-19&ana=e_du_pub, the Republicans withdrew that proposal. Instead, Vitter is trying to exclude non-citizens from the count for purposes of reapportionment, a proposal Republicans have raised before past censuses. http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2009/10/republican-senator-presses-plan-to-exclude-noncitizens-from-the-census.html According to The Census Project, a consortium of census stakeholders, the Justice Department has co
