Speaker 1: Are you a citizen? That's the question that an Obama
Speaker 1: appointed federal judge, Jesse Furman of the Manhattan District Court
Speaker 1: is forbidding the Trump administration from asking in the twenty
Speaker 1: census cannot ask are you a citizen? This question, by
Speaker 1: the way, was routinely asked before the nineteen sixties. Aside
Speaker 1: from conducting the census every ten years, the Census Bureau
Speaker 1: also conducts the American Community Survey, and they've often asked
Speaker 1: about citizenship on that survey. No problem, but Democrats are
Speaker 1: afraid that if the citizenship question is asked in the
Speaker 1: twenty census, illegal aliens won't participate and Democrats big blue
Speaker 1: cities would suffer a huge loss of federal funding and
Speaker 1: political representation, especially in sanctuary cities where Democrats welcome illegal
Speaker 1: aliens with open arms. The left is terrified that if
Speaker 1: illegal aliens aren't counted in the census, Democrat power will shrink.
Speaker 1: So what Obama judge is not declared it illegal for
Speaker 1: our government to ask if people taking a government census
Speaker 1: our citizens. It's an affront to everythinking, legal, law abiding
Speaker 1: citizen in this great republic. But there's nothing new about that.
Speaker 1: When the American left in the Democrat Party is behind
Speaker 1: anything or in front of it, depending