Trump administration proposes dropping huge swath of immigrants from US census
The proposal could exclude millions of noncitizens from apportionment totals and remove race, ethnicity and sexual orientation questions from the 2030 census.
- On Wednesday, the Trump administration proposed 2030 census changes to exclude non-U.S. citizens without green cards from apportionment counts and remove race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation questions from future 10-yearly census forms.
- These revisions follow the Trump administration's failed 2020 efforts to add a citizenship question and exclude undocumented residents; the Supreme Court blocked that attempt as a 'contrived' rationale.
- Critics warn the proposal challenges the 14th Amendment's requirement to count the 'whole number of persons in each state,' and changes would affect Electoral College votes, potentially shifting political power between regions.
- Meeta Anand, senior director of the census and data equity program at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said census data 'undergirds so much of our democracy and our society,' as the proposal enters a 30-day public comment period.
- The Heritage Foundation's 'Project 2025' agenda previously urged officials to 'thoroughly review any changes' to census data; while the Census Bureau claims demographic information remains collectable through other surveys, opponents fear this restructuring will undermine anti-discrimination protections.
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The 2030 census under President Trembe is expected to shift from a neutral tool of population counting to a political scalpel that excludes immigrants and obliterates questions of race and ethnicity, redrawing the electoral map and sharing resources at the expense of minorities.
The U.S. government has proposed a drastic reform to its national census that could leave out key data on race and ethnicity, as well as millions of immigrants...
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