Citizenship question causing an uproar in U.S. has been part of Canada's census since 1901

[Becks']

Canada can have a citizenship question on census because the government system is decentralized and our elections are administered by an independent organization.

In US, there is too much power inside the federal government and citizenship question would be used by GOP to gain political power and discriminate minorities.

There are many things Trump administration would implement that are already implemented in Canada like merit-based immigration system. In that case, Canadian system is balanced while the Trump one would probably be discriminatory.

US and Canada are two different societies and countries with their own histories, what works in Canada might not work in US.

 

[Shoot]

The purpose of this thread was not to suggest that the citizenship question on the U.S. census is not a big deal. Quite the opposite. The article in the OP outlines exactly how something so innocuous over here can be abused over there. As a Canadian who was not in the loop on this issue, I found this article illuminating. Trump is only a symptom of a very deep rooted disease.

It is easy to tell who read the OP and who did not in this thread.

Ignore the op he makes pro Trump threads all the time. Notice that you cannot view his profile to see his previous threads? I wonder why? 🤔

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This is not even a pro Trump thread. Link my pro Trump threads. Otherwise this is baseless slander.

 

[ItIsOkBro]

ice would use that data to deport your asses

 

[Deleted member 6582]

How can you use "objective" criteria for electoral maps if you can't confirm data integrity? Maybe Canada is wrong?

 

[Autodidact]

Oh my bad. I thought it was in 2010 as well.

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The American Community Survey, which since 2005 has regularly collected the kind of data that appear on the long-form, does have the question, however. It's asked, just not on the decennial forms of the actual census, hence this battle to try to keep it off and keep the Hispanic population from being undercounted.

 

[Biske]

It's not the question but how it's used to disenfranchise voters and guarantee further republican gerrymandering and main republican control of government outside of actual free and fair elections.

 

[StopMakingSense]

The American Community Survey, which since 2005 has regularly collected the kind of data that appear on the long-form, does have the question, however. It's asked, just not on the decennial forms of the actual census, hence this battle to try to keep it off and keep the Hispanic population from being undercounted.

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Got it. Thanks for the elucidation!

 

[Khanimus]

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[ConHaki66]

ruining the good name of camels op

 

[Shoot]

OP gonna run and hide like a worthless little pathetic worm with nothing of actual value to contribute.

Fucking coward.

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How about you actually read the thread instead of insulting me?

 

[Autodidact]

ice would use that data to deport your asses

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By law the Census Bureau cannot share the granular data from the census until 72 years after the fact. (We got 1940 census data in 2012; we'll get 1950 data in 2022, and so on.)

I understand not trusting this administration, however.

 

[Alastor3]

Thanks for the heads up, on my ignore list..

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WAIT you can IGNORE PEOPLE HERE? Oh jolly...

 

[Grizzel Greedigut]

Yeah but the Canadians dont have a anti immigrant Gestapo force that would use this census data to go ham

 

[plagiarize]

Is this like a stealth pro-Trump thread or something?

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"stealth"

 

[Volimar]

This thread's topic is based on a false equivalence between the US and Canadian systems and as such has been locked.