No Citizenship Question on the 2020 Census BUT....

CNN: Trump issues executive order to collect citizenship data

No Citizenship Question on the 2020 Census BUT.... President Donald Trump announces future action ordering data on citizenship to be collected by means other than the census.


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VOANews: Trump Gives Up on Adding Citizenship Question to 2020 Census

U.S. President Donald Trump says he is issuing an executive order for the Commerce Department to obtain citizenship data. But he is abandoning trying to add a controversial question on citizenship in the country's once-a-decade census next year. (read more)


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source: Hansi Lo Wong

President Trump and AG William Barr say that "as a practical matter" the question cannot be added to #2020Census.

President Trump's new executive order directs the Commerce Secretary to "consider initiating any administrative process necessary" to add a #CitizenshipQuestion to forms for the 2030 census👇

The 1st reason for citizenship information Trump's executive order cites is "to help us understand the effects of immigration on our country & to inform policymakers considering basic decisions about immigration policy"

The 2nd reason for citizenship information Trump's executive order cites is to be able to "evaluate the potential effects of proposals to alter the eligibility rules for public benefits" in a way that ensures immigrants don't receive public benefits they're not eligible for👇

The 3rd reason for citizenship information Trump's executive order cites is to create a "more reliable" count of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S.

The 4th reason for citizenship info Trump's EO cites is to allow states to draw voting districts based on number of eligible voters instead of total number of residents, which GOP strategist Thomas Hofeller concluded would be "advantageous to Republicans & Non-Hispanic Whites"

source: Hansi Lo Wong