Where are the non-citizens? The Trump administration wants to know down to the block level

DORAL, Florida — In the heart of this South Florida city, you can choose between a Cuban restaurant, a Mexican coffee shop and a Peruvian gastrobar.

But the driving force behind this ever-expanding suburb crammed between Miami International Airport and the Everglades is the flood of Venezuelans who are buying and building up seemingly every square inch of it. Just about anybody you meet there has moved from the embattled South American country, or is visiting from there.

"Doral, the best city in Venezuela," joked Aimee Sakkal, 60, who lives in Caracas but last week was visiting her three sons who recently moved to Doral.

Reflecting its international charm, Doral is a national standout for another reason: Non-citizens make up a relatively huge part of its population.

About 38 percent of Doral's residents are non-citizens – more than five times the national average of 7 percent, according to the 2013-2017 American Community Survey, which is conducted by the Census Bureau. More than 22 million non-citizens lives in the U.S., the survey found.

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Non-citizens – and finding where they live – has been very much on the mind of the Trump administration.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is attempting to add a citizenship question to the 2020 decennial census because his department claims the American Community Survey does not provide enough geographic granularity to prosecute violations of the Voting Rights Act.

Ross wants non-citizen information down to the census block, which can be the size of one city block and contain a handful to several hundred people. The census has population data for more than 11 million census blocks nationally.

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So much for the myth of Republicans being for small government.