Conservative groups created a census plan for a Republican president that includes pushing for a citizenship question that's likely to lower the counts for Latinos and Asian Americans.
A recorded video message by then-President Donald Trump plays at a 2019 naturalization ceremony for new U.S. citizens at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office in Miami.A recorded video message by then-President Donald Trump plays at a 2019 naturalization ceremony for new U.S. citizens at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office in Miami.
In court, groups that sued over the proposed question pointed to another reason that remains a potential motivating factor for a future GOP administration — neighborhood-block level citizenship data that could be used to draw voting districts that: whether it is legal for states to redraw legislative districts based on the number of citizens old enough to vote rather than of all residents in an area.
Still, in the Biden years, GOP calls to add a census citizenship question and alter the congressional apportionment numbers have not gone away. In July, House Republicans releasedthat would have banned the bureau from using the money to include unauthorized immigrants in future counts used to divide up House seats.
"Some of us would believe that the function of statistics is, if you will, the lifeblood of a democracy," Habermann adds."The idea of statistics agencies is to produce reliable, unbiased, trustworthy information that the nation can use in making its decisions and in understanding itself. They want the statistics agency to be a mouthpiece, if you will, for the Republican administration.
The plan's emphasis on a"conservative" approach to the census is raising concerns, including from a former top Trump official "This is a clear partisan effort to force an undercount of communities of color. It's unlawful and unconstitutional," Schatz says in a statement.
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