Immigrants and the US Census

Census in the US every ten years the US Government undertakes a massive campaign to count everyone that they can that lives in the United States, an since the first one immigrants both legal and illegal have been concerned that participating in the count will some how work against them. for many this is a historic distrust of their home government and the policies that may have even caused them to immigrate to our shores.

The truth of the matter is that the Immigrants actually can benefit in additional resources being directed towards there issues and neighborhoods. for instance if they see that the population of a given area is larger that they though from previous census the USA government or state or city government might decide to build additional infrastructure to support the higher population density, this might be better roads, better sanitation systems maybe even more police protection.


From the US Census website I’m concerned that this may be the first time the census will count non-citizens.
The U.S. Constitution mandates us to count everyone, including both citizens and non-citizens. We’ve followed this mandate, since the first census in 1790. The Framers of the Constitution made it clear they wanted “all inhabitants” of the country counted in the U.S. Census, and every Presidential Administration since that time that has overseen a Census has interpreted the Constitution and the laws require everyone be counted.