Citizenship Data Is Latest Rollback of Trump Census Efforts

[Judi Lynn]

Source: NBC News


The Census Bureau said none of the data from the 2020 census would include information on citizenship or immigration status, at any geographic level
By Mike Schneider • Published 2 hours ago • Updated 1 hour ago

The U.S. Census Bureau is suspending efforts to create neighborhood-level statistics on the citizenship and age of residents, using 2020 census data, in the latest rollback of Trump administration census-related initiatives that critics feared would be used to favor Republicans and whites during the drawing of state and local districts.

As part of an order President Joe Biden signed Wednesday on the 2020 census, the Census Bureau said Friday that it would discontinue efforts to create citizenship tabulations at the city-block level using 2020 census data combined with administrative records.

Among his first acts as president, Biden's order revoked two Trump directives related to the 2020 census. The first attempted to discern the citizenship status of every U.S. resident through administrative records, and the second sought to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used for apportioning congressional seats among the states.


Trump's commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, had ordered the production of the block-level citizenship data in 2018.
After Wednesday's order by Biden, the Census Bureau said none of the data from the 2020 census would include information on citizenship or immigration status, at any geographic level.

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[SunSeeker]

1. Good. nt

[Ford_Prefect]

2. If they don't get counted unless they are GOP approved we'll never have resources enough

for anyone but the GOP.

[paleotn]

5. That was the plan....

Citizenship was only a part of it. The rest involved a "cooking" of the numbers that would make Julia Child proud. Gains in GOP leaning areas. Darn...looks like Dem leaning areas lost population. Whoda thunk?

Fortunately, the real super power of the "deep state" is the slow walk. Woops. Didn't get done before Donnie and Wilber could put their stamp on it. Sorry.

[krispos42]

3. I never asked that question when I was enumerating

In fact, I had to tell people "citizenship doesn't matter" many times. Maybe not "many", but more than "a few".

[IronLionZion]

4. Plenty of workers and their families are here legally on visas or green cards

it's not just citizens who need hospitals, schools, etc.