The Ellis County Press: Rep. Edwards says census needs to count all regardless of Immigration Status

Rep. Edwards says census needs to count all regardless of Immigration Status
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Editor on 01/07/2010 09:32:00


Thursday, January 7th, 2010                                                     
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VIDEO: REP. EDWARDS SAYS CENSUS NEEDS TO COUNT ALL REGARDLESS OF IMMIGRATION
STATUS
_Click here for link to full video: http://washingtonnewsobserver.com/?p=609 _
_Length of video: 2:52 _
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_WHO__: Congresswoman Donna Edwards (D-MD)_
_WHAT__: Interview on the census._
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_SOUNDBITE 1: CENSUS NEEDS TO COUNT ALL REGARDLESS OF IMMIGRATION STATUS._
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_"It's really important for us to know the population that we have to serve. And
this isn't a question of immigration status. It really is a question of making
sure that we understand who's in our community and how many people are in our
communities."_
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_Click here for link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iufI24xpOTA _
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_SOUNDBITE 2: PRISONERS BEING COUNTED IN THE CENSUS._
_"So much of our incarcerated population, even if they're incarcerated someplace
else, they come back to communities...I really am an advocate for some
particular populations, and this is not for every population, of making sure
that those that are likely to return actually get counted from the communities
that they hail from."_
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_Click here for link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apbUji7FecU _
_ __SOUNDBITE 3: DISCUSSES THE REASONING BEHIND THE CENSUS._
_"If we don't get an accurate count, it really means that somebody has to make
up that slack and sometimes its non-profit organizations and churches that have
to make that up. It's local governments that have to make that up because we
haven't done our job in counting our population so we get the appropriate amount
of federal resources that we deserve."_
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_Click here for link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc7padeTaJE _
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