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Re:The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. s... by minitoar on Saturday October 17, 2020 @10:53AM (#24810393)
It seems obvious to me the census is intended to count everyone living there, legally or otherwise. So tourists wouldn’t count.
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Re:The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. s... by mensetmanusman on Saturday October 17, 2020 @11:07AM (#24810506)
It’s not so clear. Tourists are free people, and it might make sense to count them if we are trying to allocate resources to serve all free people (which tourists are).

If you don’t count tourists, why would you count migrants who are supposedly going back to their home country? Maybe tourists who are here for 6 months would be analogous.

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Re:The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. s... by minitoar on Saturday October 17, 2020 @01:33PM (#24811613)
Who said we should count migrants that are supposedly going back to their country?
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Re:The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. s... by mensetmanusman on Sunday October 18, 2020 @12:32AM (#24815567)
Lots of commenters here.
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