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No Respite for “Illegals” During Census

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'We won't entertain any request to scale back our efforts,' Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Kelly Nantel said Friday. Census officials had planned to speak with immigration agents about curbing enforcement during the population count, the Census Bureau's second-ranking official said in an interview earlier this week. 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 in the headcount, Deputy Director Preston Jay Waite had said. (USA Today [1], Monday)

They can't let down their guard against unauthorized productivity.

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[1] USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-08-17-census-raids_N.htm

[2] Twisting Economics Against Immigrants: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=4634

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