Originally published at: New IRS Citizenship Question Could Make It Easier for Census Bureau to Shift Political Power - TPM – Talking Points Memo
A proposed change to a key tax form could help the Trump administration achieve new anti-immigrant policy objectives, including preventing undocumented immigrants from receiving federal tax benefits. But it could also be used to accomplish a more sweeping objective: Shifting the balance of power in Congress by excluding many classes of immigrants from apportionment, the…
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The Trump regime never misses a trick to weaponize everything. It’s all political. Nothing is for the American people. It’s all cynical partisan games from one end to the other.
destroying the census is but the latest example.
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The Enumeration Clause explicitly requires that the Census include non-citizens in the reapportionment count. At the time, those non-citizens were called “slaves.” They counted a bit less, but they still had to be counted.
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The goobers don’t read the Constitution. Nor do they obey laws they feel are inconvenient. They learned the trick from trump who has avoided or ignored laws that get in his way his whole career. And he has done so with next to no price paid. He has even avoided paying comeuppance for his 34 felony fraud convictions by getting elected president.
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Didn’t this fight happen in the first Trump term as well. When is the Census supposed to start this go-round?