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Saturday, July 06, 2019

Fact-Check: Expert Debunks Claim Citizenship Question Reduces Census Accuracy

Contrary to left-wing news media claims, restoring the “citizenship question” to the national census will yield more accurate data related to both legal and illegal immigration, explained Hans von Spakovsky, a Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow, in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.

Democrats such as Reps. Rashida Tlaib (MI) and Ilhan Omar (MN) reject the Trump administration’s move to restore inquiries regarding citizenship on the census. The former derided the idea as a “racial-ized” move that “impacts directly communities of color.” The latter claimed that collection of citizenship data via the census will “increase fear” in “our communities.”

“I don’t think the critics are correct, but in any event, even if they were correct, it wouldn’t matter,” said von Spakovsky. “And the reason it wouldn’t matter is that the American people skip all kinds of questions on the census. There are a lot of people that resent being asked, for example, what race or ethnic group they are part of , and they have a non-response rate on those questions.”

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3 comments:

TheRealRay said...

No more Bullshit. God Bless America and God Bless President Trump !!!

Anonymous said...

What are these 2 people afraid of? Are they hiding radical Islams in the US illegally? Are they afraid this will hinder their terrorist activities by these illegals / radical Islamist?

Anonymous said...

One more Democrat lie put to rest .