老澳门开奖结果 Comment on Trump Administration Reportedly Ending Efforts to Exclude Undocumented Immigrants From Census Count

January 13, 2021 5:30 pm

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NEW YORK 鈥 The Census Bureau has reportedly stopped efforts to produce a count of undocumented immigrants 鈥 essentially ending President Trump鈥檚 bid to illegally exclude undocumented immigrants from the census count used to apportion seats in the House of Representatives and votes in the Electoral College.

The 老澳门开奖结果 had challenged the administration鈥檚 efforts to weaponize the census against immigrants.

Dale Ho, director of the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Voting Rights Project, argued a challenge to the Trump administration's policy before the U.S. Supreme Court last year, and had the following reaction to today鈥檚 developments:

鈥淧resident Trump tried and failed throughout his entire presidency to weaponize the census for his attacks on immigrant communities. It appears he has failed yet again. We now call upon President-elect Biden to formally rescind this unconstitutional policy after inauguration. Doing so would send the message that under our Constitution, everyone in this country counts.鈥