Community leaders urge immigrants to fill out census forms

Census workers are using every means they can think of to get the right message to immigrants. I hope it works. - - Donna Poisl

By Jeff Diamant/The Star-Ledger

NEWARK — The worshippers had just finished their regular Friday prayers in Newark when a regular attendee walked to the front of the mosque to deliver a decidedly non-religious message.

"We have a lot of Africans who live here, but we don’t know how many," said Dosso Kassimou, an Ivory Coast native and head of Newark’s African Commission, to the 80 Muslims assembled there, most of them Africans. "The census this year is very important. ... Please, you have to fill it out."
Click on the headline to read the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.