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Jasmine Crockett: “When we do the census, we're counting people that have…”

Featuring: Jasmine Crockett, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 30

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Texas Representative Discusses Education Department Closure and Political Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 09:32

And when we look at the most recent census, the state grew by approximately 4 million people. Of those 4 million people, approximately half of them were Latino. And When we do the census, we're counting people that have citizenship as well as those that don't have citizenship. Because when it comes down to our roads and our bridges and our infrastructure, our education, our hospitals, things like that, we need to know how many people are we accounting for. (09:32–09:39)

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Asserts that the census counts both citizens and non-citizens.

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