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LatinoLatino groups are urging the Obama administration to either pass immigration reform now or risk a failed census report in 2010, The Associated Press (AP) reports. Approximately 1 million Latinos, about 3 percent of the Latino population in the United States, were missed in the last census, taken in 2000.
Advocates are particularly concerned that recent high-profile immigration raids conducted over the last few years are driving the Latino population further underground. And while groups such as the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, Univision and the League of United Latin American Citizens are mounting grassroots campaigns to educate Latinos about the importance of participating in the census, they are concerned their efforts will fail without a new approach to immigration.
Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee came out in opposition of any suspension of immigration enforcement for the 2010 census.
Click here to read the full story in the New York Daily News.
Click here to read "Does Being Anti-Immigration Mean You're Anti-Latino?" on DiversityInc.com.
