Even if immigrants are not afraid of the Census, many don't understand the importance. Workers are trying to explain that more money will go to their own neighborhoods, with an accurate count. - - Donna Poisl
By Deborah E. Young
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. --- Sure, he has seen the ads on television and heard the public service announcements on Spanish radio, but Alejandro Martinez said he had no intention of filling out the U.S. Census questionnaire.
"It's not worth the effort; it doesn't really relate to the immigrant community," said Martinez, of Port Richmond, in Spanish, as he stood yesterday with other day laborers on the service road, at the Forest Avenue exit off the Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway. "I'm not scared. I just don't see the importance."
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