Pulling Punches

(Fox News) - The Census Bureau wants federal immigration agents to suspend enforcement raids on illegal aliens during the 2010 census count. The bureau's No. 2 official says raids during the population survey will make an already distrustful group even less likely to cooperate with government census takers.

A spokeswoman with Immigration and Customs Enforcement wouldn't comment on the request, saying if they did back off a bit they wouldn't announce it.

But Michigan Republican Congresswoman Candice Miller calls the census request "nuts" saying, "I don't know what country the Census Bureau is living in. The American people have grown sick and tired of their immigration laws not being enforced. They are not going to tolerate enforcement being suspended for any amount of time."