- The census is all about numbers. And that’s the same thing the immigration debate is about. It’s not law and order, not economics, and not secure borders. It’s all about numbers.
Here’s where you went completely off the rails, R.N.
The census is a Constitutionally-mandated, government function and as such, because it determines the composition of Congress in a fundamental way, is very much about law and order.
And inasmuch as federal law influences (lately: controls) economics it is also very much about that as well. To pretend not to see this is an unreasonable, even irrational position. If the census were solely about ‘numbers’, there wouldn’t be any point to it and there certainly wouldn’t be any justification for spending Treasury monies on it.
So – just because Latino activists are whining – you want to suspend the law. Sorry, I don’t think you’ll get many people to climb on that bus. Just as you won’t get reasonable people to buy into the notion that the immigration debate is only about ‘numbers’. That debate is about ILLEGAL immigration and, as such, about CRIMINAL activity – very much an issue of law and order. Your proposition that we ignore law in order to benefit La Raza is by definition true, fundamental racism.
