Vitter's Census Citizenship Question Making More News

[Ayatollahgondola]

Originally Posted by LAPhil

You don't think the illegals are going to admit to being here illegally, do you? I go back to my original question, how would we know? And as for benefitting from the representational standpoint, I agree that in an ideal world this wouldn't happen, but what's your solution to other issues entailed in not counting them?

I don't actually know how many would or wouldn't tell the truth. On that same point, I'm not even sure how many citizens even tell the truth about much or all the questions. We don't tailor the questions to the general population based upon their willingness to answer, so to do so for one soecific demographic seems a bit unfair. I don't see any issues in not counting them. We should not plan our government around the illegals remaining here, but rather how and when they should leave. To do any different concedes some sort of plan to allow them to stay