Trumps wants 2020 Census to ask about citizenship

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/26/597188221/2020-census-will-reinstate-question-on-citizenship-status

This is a direct way to add seats to red states. It's a blatant and intentional method to drive immigrants underground and hurt their communities and states. This is clearly and unambiguously about race.

What a shock!

Given that TX has 11% non-citizen population. FL has 10% according to the Kaiser Foundation. This could be an unintended consequence.

Will the MODS do anything?

How would identifying illegal immigrants add seats to red states? Are you a Very Special Person?

JamesSokolove said:

Will the MODS do anything?

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"We didnt have any conversations. "

"Oh! Those conversations. We had multiple conversations going back to spring 2017."

Liars.

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/11/6565...ussing-citizenship-question-with-steve-bannon

OldGoldandGrobe said:

How would identifying illegal immigrants add seats to red states? Are you a Very Special Person?

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Because the majority of states nearest to the Mexican border are red states, ya numpty.

Sessions ignored top scientist, personally intervened to do what he wanted

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5bd3e43de4b055bc948c07bd

Trump administration requests to delay citizenship question trial.

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/29/6599...ourt-to-delay-census-citizenship-question-tri

Evidence from a dead man’s computer shows citizenship question is a blatant move to aid gerrymandering.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/us/census-citizenship-question-hofeller.html

WASHINGTON — Thomas B. Hofeller achieved near-mythic status in the Republican Party as the Michelangelo of gerrymandering, the architect of partisan political maps that cemented the party’s dominance across the country.

But after he died last summer, his estranged daughter discovered hard drives in her father’s home that revealed something else: Mr. Hofeller had played a crucial role in the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

Files on those drives showed that he wrote a study in 2015 concluding that adding a citizenship question to the census would allow Republicans to draft even more extreme gerrymandered maps to stymie Democrats. And months after urging President Trump’s transition team to tack the question onto the census, he wrote the key portion of a draft Justice Department letter claiming the question was needed to enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act — the rationale the administration later used to justify its decision.

Those documents, cited in a federal court filing Thursday by opponents seeking to block the citizenship question, have emerged only weeks before the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the legality of the citizenship question. Critics say adding the question would deter many immigrants from being counted and shift political power to Republican areas.

In Supreme Court arguments in April over the legality of the decision, the Trump administration argued that the benefits of obtaining more accurate citizenship data offset any damage stemming from the likely depressed response to the census by minority groups and noncitizens. And it dismissed charges that the Commerce Department had simply invented a justification for adding the question to the census as unsupported by the evidence.

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welp

Shooshmoo said:

said it "would clearly be a disadvantage to the Democrats” & “advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites”

Just right out there in the open, which is cool now.

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Every "conspiracy theory" has turned out to be true. This is truly horrifying. Republicans are monsters. Never stop projecting, pubs. Never stop defending, pubs.

I'll make a bold prediction- neither Brad, Wrangor, or sailor will comment, much less condemn. If asked, sailor will mention he is not aware of the facts.

sailor loves to be unaware of something, then not comment further once he's been made aware

I'm not sure anyone actually believed Republicans were trying to better enforce the 1965 Voting Act.

I'm just surprised they were caught.

Wait, so we all know about the Southern Strategy, but this is surprising ?

The surprise is that there is evidence that it was so blatant.

What would be surprising would be for Fox or One America to cover this story.

only if Strozk, Page, Comey or the fake dossier said it.