Originally published at: Trump Administration May Add Immigration Status Question on Census to Influence Apportionment, Experts Warn - TPM – Talking Points Memo
President Donald Trump may have learned from his last go at manipulating the decennial census to include a citizenship question: His administration looks poised to try something different in order to target undocumented immigrants during the 2030 count, experts said in a briefing call this week. Civil rights organizations and census experts pointed to clues…
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My family has been in North America since before the US existed.
Trump’s mum was an immigrant from Scotland and he would 've excluded her. His dad was a son of a German immigrant yet trump hates immigrants.
Cat…
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Trump won’t be president in 2030, and assuming it’s a Democrat, any questions inserted by the Trump regime can be taken out. If it’s a MAGA scumbag who somehow is in office nothing matters, since the remnants of our democracy are gone anyway.
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“yet trump hates immigrants.”
Trump hates non white immigrants.
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Not all immigrants. Only those with too much melanin in their skin.
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Damn racist
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Isn’t the Census required to report all residents?
So the Trumpniks are trying to redefine the term “resident”?
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Funny, I seem to recall the Constitution simply requiring a count of all persons in the United States. But what do I know about the niceties of Constitutional law compared to a super genius like Trxmp.
P.S. Any such question showing up on the next census survey I’m lucky enough to fill out will be ignored.
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To refer back to another shameful episode in American political history, Senator Joseph McCarthy’s repeated fact free attacks during an earlier red scare, “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
(Spoiler Alert. The answer is No.)
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Or perhaps the word “people.”
In 40 years, we will all look back at this and realize how racist and evil and self harming our approach to immigration and citizenship was.
In 100 years, the word “citizen” will be seen with the same suspicion that “comrade” is now.
Inshallah.