ZD Board Chair Arturo Vargas on Census Boycott

In an NPR"All Things Considered"  interview yesterday, Arturo Vargas,
NALEO Executive Director and ZeroDivide Board Chair, explains why undocumented Latinos living in the U.S. should participate in the 2010 Census.

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Hispanics Divided Over Census Boycott

Boycott advocate Rivera says the census harkens back to the days of
slavery, because undocumented immigrants are counted but not granted
equal benefits.

Arturo Vargas, of the National Association of
Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, draws a different analogy. He
says when the census began in 1790, black slaves only counted as 60
percent of a man — and Native Americans, as zero.

"What Mr.
Rivera would be advocating is that Latino immigrants make themselves
once again zero percent of a person under the Constitution," Vargas
says. "To me, that's not just irresponsible, it's immoral."