18 states sue Trump administration to stop rigging of 2020 Census
The 2020 Census will determine how many congressional seats each state receives, and play a major role in shaping where district lines are drawn. It will shape how much money states receive to build highways, to fund child care, and to provide health care to poor people — among many other things. It will also inform the decisions of private businesses about where they should invest.
So, naturally, the Trump administration wants to skew these numbers to benefit white people.
For decades, Census officials of both political parties warned against asking about citizenship status on the decennial census. As the Census’ top officials cautioned during the Reagan and Bush I administrations, asking about immigration status “could seriously jeopardize the accuracy of the census,” because “people who are undocumented immigrants may either avoid the census altogether or deliberately misreport themselves as legal residents,” while legal residents “may misunderstand or mistrust the census and fail or refuse to respond.”
By one estimate, as many as 24.3 million people may not respond to the Census if it includes a citizenship question. That’s despite the fact that the Constitution requires an “actual Enumeration” of “the whole number of persons in each state,” regardless of each person’s immigration status.
https://thinkprogress.org/census-citizenship-lawsuit-bcc60955760e/
Time to start sending letters to my congressional elected representatives on this issue here in Maryland
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