Government Inanity At Work

I'm having a hard time believing this story:

WASHINGTON — The Census Bureau wants immigration agents to suspend enforcement raids during the 2010 census so the government can better count illegal immigrants.

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, the Census Bureau's second-ranking official said in an Associated Press interview.

Deputy Director Preston Jay Waite said immigration enforcement officials did not conduct raids for several months before and after the 2000 census. But today's political climate is even more volatile on the issue of illegal immigration.

Enforcement agents "have a job to do," Waite said. "They may not be able to give us as much of a break" in 2010.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman declined to say whether immigration officials would halt raids. "If we were, we wouldn't talk about it," Pat Reilly said.

Can't we just count them as we toss them back over the border?

This is typical big government at work. Each little office or department knows only their piece of the 10,000 piece puzzle and none of them are able to back up a bit and see the entire picture. Consequently, if the piece that's in charge of counting noses every 10 years sees something that might interfere with their little piece, well, we can't have that.

I'm sure this idea will get shot down pretty fast.