Wouldn't it be easier to count them in jail?

Census workers know it will be difficult counting illegal immigrants for the 2010 population tally and even tougher if those immigrants are hiding from enforcement agents.

"If you have federal officials going door to door trying to count people, and federal officials going door to door trying to deport people, it doesn't work," said Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.

To make it easier, the Census Bureau wants immigration agents to suspend enforcement raids during the population count, the Census Bureau's second-ranking official said in an Associated Press interview.

Don't take my snide remark as a sign that I think we're doing the right thing when it comes to our handling of immigration policy... because I think it's stupid, and most people who complain about illegals do so in a very poorly thought out way.  But it still begs the original question...