Category: census

Census Bureau: Citizenship Data Won’t be Released Until After Trump Leaves Office

Data on the citizenship status of census respondents won’t be finalized or released until after President Donald Trump leaves office, putting his push to exclude illegal immigrants from apportionment in jeopardy. Trump in 2019 ordered executive agencies to share with the bureau information about U.S. citizens and non-citizens, after an attempt to add a citizenship…


Census Bureau Orders Halt to Efforts to Comply With Trump Citizenship Mandate

Census Bureau workers were ordered this week to stop complying with President Donald Trump’s order to collect data on the immigration status of people living in the United States, the bureau’s director said Wednesday. Steven Dillingham, the director, said in a memo that he informed officials at the agency “that those involved should ‘stand down’…


Census Bureau Halting Efforts to Comply With Trump Citizenship Mandate

Census Bureau workers were ordered this week to stop complying with President Donald Trump’s order to collect data on the immigration status of people living in the United States, the bureau’s director said. Steven Dillingham, the director, said in a Jan. 13 memo he’s informed officials at the agency “that those involved should ‘stand down’ and…


Supreme Court Requires Lower Courts Exclude Illegal Aliens From Census Count

Following its ruling earlier this month that allowed the Trump administration to remove illegal aliens from the 2020 Census count, the Supreme Court on Dec. 28 threw out two lower court decisions that went the other way by barring the government from eliminating that population from the process that allocates congressional seats and Electoral College…


Supreme Court Requires Lower Courts to Exclude Illegal Aliens From Census Count

Following its ruling earlier this month that allowed the Trump administration to remove illegal aliens from the 2020 Census count, the Supreme Court on Dec. 28 threw out two lower court decisions that went the other way, that barred the government from eliminating that population from the process of allocating congressional seats and Electoral College…