The Supreme Court's ruling blocking the citizenship question on the 2020 Census is a welcome relief—but the Court has left open the possibility that the Trump administration could still add a citizenship question to the Census. And if they do, I have a plan for that.
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Here's how this would work. First, I would immediately direct all executive agencies to ignore the tainted Census data until a new Census is complete. States receive nearly $600 billion per year from 16 programs tied to Census data, & we won't allow a tainted Census to skew that.
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Next, my administration would conduct a second Census—without any questions about citizenship—to replace Trump's tainted Census in advance of the 2022 midterm elections. And I would have an aggressive, well-funded outreach campaign to reach historically undercounted communities.
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Finally, we'd ban the use of citizenship questions in government surveys and implement lasting reforms to the Census to prevent any president from using these kinds of tricks to take political representation or other resources away from immigrant communities.
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@NALEO's ¡Hágase Contar! Census 2020 Campaign is already working to ensure that immigrant and Latinx communities are fully counted, and I join them in calling on these communities to be heard.Show this thread -
The Census must count every person. Our Constitution demands it. Our democracy requires it. And I hope that the courts will continue to keep this racist and blatantly partisan question off of the 2020 Census.
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This is incredibly stupid.
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Sure, bot.
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If he does I will not answer it
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No! NO! NOOO!!!! Don't even start thinking like that! Stupid tactics like protesting the census will cause us to lose political representation! If you do not answer it, that is one fewer vote counted in your area, which means that your district will have to include MORE people
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Nobody cares what you have to say
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Read that back to yourself in a mirror
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