As the Supreme Court weighs whether the Trump administration can ask people if they are citizens on the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau is quietly seeking comprehensive information about the legal status of millions of immigrants
As the U.S. Supreme Court weighs whether the Trump administration can ask people if they are citizens on the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau is quietly seeking comprehensive information about the legal status of millions of immigrants.
Such a data dump would be apparently unprecedented and give the Census Bureau a view of immigrants' citizenship status that is even more precise than what can be gathered in door-to-door canvassing, according to bureau research. "The U.S. Census Bureau routinely enters into agreements to receive administrative records from many agencies, including our pending agreement with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, to assist us in our mission to provide quality statistics to the American public," Cook said in a statement."By law, the Census Bureau does not return any records to the Department of Homeland Security or any of its components, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Under the pending three-year information-sharing agreement, the Census Bureau would use the DHS data to better determine who is a citizen and eligible to vote by"linking citizenship information from administrative records to Census microdata." In previous administrations, government lawyers advised Census researchers to use a minimal amount of identifying data to get their jobs done, said O'Hara, now co-director of Georgetown University's census research center. During her tenure, the bureau never obtained anything as sensitive as alien numbers, which O'Hara called"more radioactive than fingerprints.
Census scholars say that could not happen without new legislation, which is not likely under the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives. "The news of this proposed plan will surely send shockwaves through immigrant communities across the country," Gomez said Wednesday."This new development raises even more questions about the motivations behind this untested citizenship question and Secretary Ross better be ready to answer them."
Against advice of career officials at the Census Bureau, Ross decided last year to add the citizenship question to the 10-year headcount, saying the Justice Department requested the question to improve enforcement of the federal Voting Rights Act.
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