grant groups, mostly, argue that the opposite kind of result can happen in that lots of illegals report that they live here in the United States, and thereby certain districts in the United States would actually qualify for more representation in Congress simply because they have huge numbers of illegals. Is that political repercussion? MR. WEINBERG:
Well, the Constitution and all the interpretations we’ve gotten from the courts over the years says it’s the resident population, not citizen and non-citizen, it’s resident population. And if they live here, they’re residents, and that’s what should – those are the – everybody should be counted who lives here, not legal or illegal. The Congress, I suppose, could try to change the law if they really wanted to, and then that would have to be adjudicated through the courts, but the courts have upheld the current interpretation for centuries.QUESTION:
I’m Emmanuelle Richard with France 2 TV network, and my colleague is also a news producer. They tried to call to – so that he could follow an agent in the case when you have physical people going door to door, and we are told it’s not possible.MR. WEINBERG:
Is it not possible because we’re foreign media and you only have that much resources and you let only national media, or – MR. WEINBERG:
Not at all. Don’t let any media – not any U.S. media at all.QUESTION:
Oh, okay.MR. WEINBERG:
Because it’s part of this protecting the privacy and confidentiality of the data. If you interview – if you had a picture of somebody filling out their form, basically, you are involved in the data collection process. And we are required by law to keep that private and confidential.QUESTION:
Now, you can, I’m sure, work with our information office to get a simulated interview to show what it would look like if it were real, but you can’t follow a real interviewer. They are instructed to – if the media approach, they have to stop work.QUESTION:
You can’t follow an agent? They can go and then you stop filming, because it’s private, after that?MR. WEINBERG:
Yeah, but why not use – if it’s just a picture of somebody knocking on a door you want, the Census Bureau will give you b-roll and somebody knocking –QUESTION:
(Inaudible) and then as the agents say, “Well, I’ve been turned today by this number people,” or, “It’s been difficult,” or, “I go around” – because we want to show the scale – MR. WEINBERG:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, all I can suggest is work with our public information office and see what they – I mean we want publicity. Of course, we want publicity. QUESTION:
You know, 300 million people. How do you count them? It’s – MR. WEINBERG:
Exactly, so – QUESTION:
Well, who do you recommend that – in your office who we – MR. WEINBERG:
Well, Stephen --QUESTION:
-- (inaudible) TV –MR. WEINBERG:
Stephen Buckner is the name I would contact.QUESTION:
New York, go ahead.QUESTION:
Hello. I’m Gabriel Plesea, for Romanian media. I have two questions. One, you said there is an exception, ambassador. Isn’t this – just the ambassador or the diplomatic mission staff? And also, you don’t have the international organizations. I’m referring to the United Nations. What about those? You do have national (inaudible) the counters. And the (inaudible) that the census refers to the residents. You do not go by citizenship or whatever. But what about those?
The other question is – MR. WEINBERG:
Let me do one. Let me answer that one. We’ll come – yeah. It’s – basically, it’s diplomatic, I suppose, because you – the people who live in the foreign soil within the United States, the Embassy compound. I don’t think it’s just the ambassadors. But we do want foreign nationals who live on U.S. soil to fill out the census. It’s – they live – if they live here most of the time. I mean some countries are different. I know in Ireland, it’s if you’re there that night, whether you – you know, you may be passing through. You’re there one night, they want to count you that one census night. But here, if you usually live or stay, we want you to count. If you’re a foreign tourist, you come in for