We are heading toward the Constitutionally required census that is to be conducted every 10 years. In Bergen County it seems there is a dispute among Latino group leaders as to whether "undocumented immigrants" should cooperate with the count. Some groups are urging the illegal population NOT to cooperate; to boycott the census. Other groups want the illegal population to participate in an effort to increase the federal aid cities will receive that is based on total population. The groups that favor the boycott want the US government to approve "comprehensive immigration reform" before the census it taken. One anti-census leader refers to illegals as "today's slaves". (This sounds like the 3/5 compromise in the Constitution that held that the slave population in early America were to be counted as 3/5 of their total so that the slave holding states could benefit from their presence while at the same time granting them none of the the rights that other residents and citizens were granted).
(Source: "Latino leaders at odds over census" by Elizabeth Llorente of The Record on 6/13/09).
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