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YMCA-LA Youth Ambassadors to Encourage Census Taking in Diverse Communities

Posted by Contributing Editor on August 9, 2020 in Crime | Leave a response
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The YMCA-LA will send “youth ambassadors” to 10 Grab & Go locations in diverse communities this week to encourage participation in this year’s U.S. Census, officials said.

Starting Monday, and continuing through Friday, YMCA-LA will activate its first Census Youth Ambassador Program to recruit and train youth volunteers from the community to assist with census education and outreach.

The Grab & Go centers were put in place to provide meals to children forced to stay home after schools closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Census Youth Ambassador Program consists of 500 people and was launched earlier this year to encourage teens to effect change in their own environments.

Officials with the outreach program said young people in immigrant communities are often trusted to interpret information and guide families through important decisions. Tablets and other census resources will be on hand for people to complete the federal questionnaire.

“Through my work as a youth ambassador, I’ve come to recognize that federal reports such as the decennial census affect me and my community directly,” said Mariela Barrales, YMCA-LA Teen Census Ambassador. “My parents and several of my friends and neighbors can’t vote in government elections due to their immigration statuses. Despite this, legislation is passed that affects them daily.

“Although they can’t vote in city, state, and nation-wide elections, every 10 years the Census gives them the opportunity to make their voices heard because responses are completely confidential and cannot be legally shared.”

Last month, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing that this year’s census exclude immigrants in the country illegally from the count that determines how congressional seats are apportioned, and how federal funding is dispersed among the 50 states.

The memo — which is under legal challenge from several nationwide Democratic office holders including California Attorney General Xavier Becerra — notes that the U.S. Constitution calls for a count of “persons in each state” for purposes of allocating congressional seats, and argues that since the count historically excludes tourists and foreign diplomats, it is not required to count everyone physically present at the time of the census. Trump said including people illegally in the country is not in keeping with democratic principles.

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“Excluding these illegal aliens from the apportionment base is more consonant with the principles of representative democracy underpinning our system of government. Affording congressional representation, and therefore formal political influence, to states on account of the presence within their borders of aliens who have not followed the steps to secure a lawful immigration status under our laws undermines those principles,” the memo states in part. “Increasing congressional representation based on the presence of aliens who are not in a lawful immigration status would also create perverse incentives encouraging violations of federal law.”

Historically, the U.S. Census has sought to count every person in the United States, regardless of legal status, as is required under Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution.

The youth ambassadors will be present at the following locations:

— Anderson Munger Family YMCA, Monday and Wednesday, 9-11 a.m.

— Antelope Valley Family YMCA, Wednesday, 9-11 a.m.

— Crenshaw Family YMCA, Tuesday and Thursday 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

— Gardena-Carson Family YMCA, Tuesday and Thursday, 9-11 a.m.

— Ketchum-Downtown YMCA Preschool, Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.-noon

— Mid Valley Family YMCA, Monday and Wednesday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

— San Pedro & Peninsula YMCA, Tuesday and Thursday, 9-11 a.m.

— Southeast-Rio Vista YMCA, Monday and Wednesday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

— Weingart East Los Angeles YMCA, Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

— Wilmington Family YMCA, Monday and Wednesday, 9-11 a.m.

YMCA-LA Youth Ambassadors to Encourage Census Taking in Diverse Communities was last modified: August 9th, 2020 by Contributing Editor

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