Why would you boycott the census?

A group of Latino's advocate boycotting the 2010 Federal census. If they succeed, they'll become victims of their own ignorance. The Latino community would be more successful getting the community to take the census instead of blaming the government for not allocating resources/representation to consistently UNDERCOUNTED regions of America (like the Bronx). Intentionally under-representing yourself in a national census only screws yourself further in your legislative power and ultimately you surrender any political means of pursuing any social changes.

Way to shoot yourselves in the foot guys. If this is how you want to pursue reform, then you deserve the neglect of this nation. You're surrendering your strength in numbers for a protest...? Over a census that only takes place once every ten years...? Perhaps you should think about this before you actually do this. Because if you successfully boycott the census on any level, you'll under-count yourselves even further, get less congressional representation, face even more vicious resistance in immigration reform, and you'll complain even more for the next ten years (which will fall on deaf ears because you chose to boycott your only means of being counted in this country's democratic process).

It's hard for me to imagine what these groups are thinking. There is no futility in legislation that should lead to such ignorance.