Immigration officials say they won't halt raids during 2010 census

[The Straight Story]

Immigration officials say they won't halt raids during 2010 census
By Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press August 17, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Immigration officials sharpened their message a day after being coy about whether they would agree to halt enforcement raids during the 2010 census.

"We won't entertain any request to scale back our efforts," Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Kelly Nantel said Friday.

Census officials had planned to speak with immigration agents about curbing enforcement during the population count, the Census Bureau's second-ranking official said in an interview earlier this week.

Raids during the population count would make an already distrustful group even less likely to cooperate with government workers who are supposed to include them in the headcount, Deputy Director Preston Jay Waite had said.

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1. They can say that now but

there will be a different President in office by then so things may change and drastically.