strength dshg the display of strength, in my book, is you lift people up, you don t beat them down. but this guy in the white house has a continuous pattern of trying to beat people down. specifically on this issue on the census. what we know and we have always been afraid of this. is that there are a lot of blended families in america. and by that, i mean, on this issue, families where certain family members will be documented, others not. what s going to happen? when the census taker comes knocking on that door, they re not going to answer the door, for fear that this being an agent of the government, might be in the business of deportation. or investigating who is in that household for purposes about deportation and not counting people. the result of that will be and include that people will not be counted. and who in particular? immigrants. who in particular? specifically, in terms of the largest population that we know has been the target of this
responses coming back for the u.s. census bureau. i happen to be concerned of a few things. number one, it came too late to be tested in the sort of dry run that s happening in a few weeks and starting in providence, rhode island. i think that that s going to be, you know, a concern we haven t had a chance to see exactly how this is going to react and we have to remember that you know, a decade is a very long time and you know, there may be significant sea changes within our government. what happens if these people don t fill out the census form and later on there s a path to citizenship and we have problem with redistricting as well as federal grants. david: but if i m here illegally, i apparently have no qualms about saying things that aren t true because that s the only way that i can survive here if i lie about my citizenship. so what s to prevent me from lying to a census taker and saying, yeah, i m a citizen. you re not supposed to lie to a census taker. david: but you re not s
solution. here we are a decade later, donald trump is making the most overt plitization of the census to undercount populations. they want to suppress the voices. where are the republicans now? there s another history here. i can recall back before the 2010 census. he said he would have a gun ready for anyone who tried to come to his home as a census taker. there was a huge out cry on the far right against the census because they were claiming even then there were some attempt to overcount minorities or racialize the census. what do you make of this long standing desire to game or oppose the idea of counting based on who all is here? what we have seen the least politically is with minority p populati
but the government can ask you anything at once. you don t have to answer because you have a right to remain silent. the only question you have to answer when census people come knocking is how many people live there but the long form that asks how many bathrooms, what is the education, the income level, where do kids go to school, george w. bush when he was president famously received that at his ranch in waco, texas and know what he did in front of the camera? ripped it up. i m not suggesting people break the law. the losses the? and macro. a judgment on the legal end of things. the job of the census taker is
california gets this to court, he will lose. he will have a partial victory. the partial victory in my opinion is the fed can ask what they want but you don t have to answer. eric: thank you. census takers, make sure he fills it outs. they re going to come after me now. i ll get more than a voice on that phone. eric: thanks, judge. julie? julie: i ve never had a census taker come to my home ever. i don t want to jinx myself. i don t mean to brag either. all right. the balance of power on capitol hill is up for grabs in the november mid terns. if republicans want to hold on to the house, analysts say it could come down to one voting block. we ll tell you what the that is. plus, why one state just hit the brakes on uber s self-driving cars. as long as it was tested. it s scary. what if they malfunction and you crash?