Counties push illegals to win census bucks | Washington Examiner: "With the 2010 census looming, local governments are targeting illegal immigrants to land federal funding tied to the population count.
Dispatching civic groups to speak with day laborers and delivering pleas from church pulpits, officials hope to ease worries about personal information being used for immigration raids.
Failing to count illegal immigrants, local officials say, will reduce federal funding around $1,000 a year for each ignored person. And counties are looking for ways to offset costs that arise from providing health care and school services to thousands of residents who don't contribute taxes.
'The bottom line is we're counting heads,' Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Sharon Bulova said. 'We've done it for hundreds of years in this country -- people who are citizens and noncitizens.'"
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