Common Dreams: As Second Judge Rejects Census Citizenship Question, Trump’s Backup Plan to Count Non-Citizens Exposed.
Washington,
March 7, 2019
In the wake of the second legal defeat of President Donald Trump's plan to count all non-citizens in the 2020 census, new reporting reveals the Census Bureau has been secretly working with Homeland Security officials to develop a new method of sharing immigration status data in order to identify individuals and target communities nationwide. As the Associated Press reported Thursday, the Census Bureau has been working with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for weeks to obtain information about the legal status of millions of immigrants. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) said he planned to question Ross about the plan when the commerce secretary testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform next week. "The news of this proposed plan will surely send shockwaves through immigrant communities across the country," Gomez told the AP. "This new development raises even more questions about the motivations behind this untested citizenship question and Secretary Ross better be ready to answer them." |
