Census Citizenship Question Flushes Out Democrats

The Democrats don’t want you to know whether there are 12 or 20 or 30 million people living illegally in America?

RUSH: I can’t emphasize this enough. … “You know what? This thing with these Democrats going ape over the question on the new census form about citizenship, you know what that’s doing?”

“That is exposing for everybody the truth of what you’ve been saying for the last 20 years about this. You’ve been telling people the Democrats only care about this because they want more voters and they want more dependence on the government and they want more people that can’t do anything for themselves, so they’re gonna always vote Democrat.”

What’s wrong with knowing whether they’re illegal or not? Knowing that they’re illegal just means we have to help them. Why are the Democrats opposed to that? He thinks that’s gonna be a common reaction rooted in common sense and that when people see it, they’re gonna have no choice but to conclude the Democrats have been misleading them and even lying to them. And there may be a lot of truth to that.

… this is gonna be a fight. They’re gonna fight this like you haven’t seen anything fought. They cannot — (interruption) What? Oh, why do they not want it known who is and who isn’t a citizen? There’s one primary reason and a number of others that you would call ancillary.

What is the census? Among many other things, it counts the number of people who live here and tells us a lot about who they are demographically, any number of ways. And what happens when people find out that the number of illegals here is not 12 million, that it’s 20 or 30, that we are supporting and providing education and health care and all that to, and that they just keep coming. The left doesn’t want the true number out there. They want you to believe it’s 12 million or fewer living in the shadows.

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