So, who’s the Census Bureau work for?

According to this bit of performance art from the Associated Press (by way of Fox News), the Census Bureau is worried that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau might actually enforce the law;

The Census Bureau wants immigration agents to suspend enforcement raids during the 2010 census so the government can better count illegal immigrants.

Raids during the population count would make an already distrustful group even less likely to cooperate with government workers who are supposed to include them, the Census Bureau’s second-ranking official said in an Associated Press interview.

Deputy Director Preston Jay Waite said immigration enforcement officials did not conduct raids for several months before and after the 2000 census. But today’s political climate is even more volatile on the issue of illegal immigration.

Enforcement agents “have a job to do,” Waite said. “They may not be able to give us as much of a break” in 2010.

So? The more illegal aliens they catch, the fewer you have to count, goofball. And maybe the illegal immigrants are mistrustful of the government because they’re in violation of our laws.

I might remind you that there was a criminal in the White House in 2000 – someone who didn’t give much thought to enforcing the law as much as he thought about writing new laws he wouldn’t enforce. The only illegal aliens he was worried about were 7 year-old Cuban boys.

Every ten years I get a threatening letter from the Census Bureau that they can prosecute me for not filling out their form (which is a lie by the way) yet they want other agencies to suspend law enforcement activities for them? Dumbasses.

In related news, Herndon, Virginia voted to keep their Day Labor center open and to fire the previous operators who don’t understand that they work for their employers and should do what their employers tell them to do;

The vote ended the uncertainty over whether Project Hope and Harmony, the faith-based nonprofit that runs the site, will be allowed to continue in that role permanently.

“It will be a big disappointment for us and the workers” when Hope and Harmony leaves, said Bill Threlkeld, director of the group, which is affiliated with Reston Interfaith. The group will consider remaining until a new manager is found but will continue its practice of not checking immigration status.

Council member William B. Tirrell Sr. said “the rule of law” took priority over workers’ needs. “The law is the law is the law,” he said. “We can’t decide by whimsy what laws you’re going to enforce.”

How hard is it to check whether someone should be allowed to work in the US before helping them locate work? Jeez.

And of course the “immigration advocates” are convoluted when discussing their position;

Immigration advocates said immigrants who are legally able to work in the U.S. are only a small fraction of the undocumented immigrants in the country.

“I think the Town Council has basically positioned themselves with some options still open,” day-labor center operator Bill Threlkeld said. “We’re not particularly happy with some of the conditions that we were fighting to have in place.”

Um, Bill you’re not an “immigration advocate”, you’re an accessory to a felony. And, ya know the “big duh” here is that only a small fraction of illegal immigrants have permission to work – that’s kinda the point of the whole thing.

The city of Herndon voted Wednesday night to keep the day-labor center in the city open but made it a rule to check workers’ identification before allowing them to work.

Workers won’t necessarily need a driver’s license, but they will have to be able to prove they can legally work in the U.S.

Immigration advocates said that defeats the purpose of a day-labor center.

Again, kinda the whole point. Facilitating a criminal act is a criminal act. Working without permission to work is not legal. Do I need to get my crayons out to explain it to ya? From the Examiner;

The new council has been trying all year to secure a new operator for the site who would check the immigration status of the workers there, a move that would dramatically alter the nature of the center and likely thrust many of the workers back out into the community.

Or, they could thrust themselves back home and focus on making their hometowns prosperous and stop the brain drain from Latin America.

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