San Francisco & California Liberal Politicians; Counting Illegal Immigrants in 2010 Census for Billions More in Federal Tax Dollars & Possible U.S. House Seat:By Marc Chamot
What’s wrong with this picture? Under President Obama all is fair in American politics, and no wonder he wanted to personally take charge of the 2010 U.S. Census.
Sanctuary cities like San Francisco and the state’s Democrats are pushing hard to count their undocumented immigrants. The U.S. government doles out about $400 billion to states and local jurisdictions every year, based on population counts made during the nation's decennial censuses.
They have enlisted every ethnic, pro-immigrant organization, and pro-amnesty groups and their Medias to help convince undocumented living in the state and its localities to be counted for dollars.
In San Francisco, public officials and community advocates maintained that the city was undercounted by at least 100,000 in the last census, resulting in losses of about $300 million over the past decade that otherwise would have supported city services.
Californian liberal politicians, like San Francisco’s Supervisors, David Campos, John Avalos, and David Chiu are targeting mainly, Asian (Chinese) and Hispanic groups, who are the largest undocumented groups in California and in the city, for more federal taxpayer moneys and to possibly help increase the state’s representations at the U.S. house.
States and local governments spend money on censuses outreach efforts to stress to residents and particularly those who may be wary of the importance of the census. Each uncounted resident results in the loss of $1,000 a year in federal funding for a state, according to the nonprofit Grant Makers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees.
The government uses the data for political apportionment (determining voting district lines and the number of seats each state occupies in the House of Representatives) and for the disbursement of federal funds for vital services, such as health care, public education, job training, infrastructure and emergency preparedness - to the tune of roughly $400 billion per year.
The communities most in need of federal dollars are at the local level, they are those who are most likely to be undercounted. The Census Bureau calls it: Hard to Count Communities. According to its own analyses, Hard to Count Communities tend to be poor, ethnic, most (illegal immigrants) and overwhelmingly young.
Yet, given the extra hardships caused by the economic crisis, education cutbacks, foreclosures, joblessness, the census has taken on added importance.
Perhaps it is more important than in 2000, when an estimated undercount of 1 million people caused California to lose out on a possible state representative in the U.S. house and millions of federal dollars.
"If sanctuary states like California and cities like San Francisco love to protect their illegal immigrants, especially the criminal ones, shouldn’t they be footing the bill, not the nation’s taxpayers?"
Source: SF Chronicle Cuts in cash for census may cost state billions
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