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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Mon Jul 8, 2019, 08:42 AM Jul 2019

The Trump administration has changed its story on the census citizenship question at least 10 times

By JM Rieger
July 8 at 6:00 AM

Originally, it was supposed to help the Justice Department enforce the Voting Rights Act. Then the Supreme Court said that was a pretext.

It would not be used for immigration enforcement. Then it could be used to deal with the “burden” of undocumented immigrants.

It would not be used for congressional redistricting. Then it could be.

The administration would not challenge the Supreme Court ruling blocking a citizenship question on the 2020 Census. Then it decided it would.

President Trump’s renewed push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census has again thrown his administration, which until last week had gone nearly four months without a White House communications director, for a loop. In the interim, Trump and his officials have undercut one another’s public statements as well as the administration’s legal arguments for adding a citizenship question. You can watch them do this over and over again in the video above.

In March, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said no census data could be used for immigration enforcement.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/08/trump-administration-has-changed-its-story-census-citizenship-question-least-times-four-months/

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The Trump administration has changed its story on the census citizenship question at least 10 times (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2019 OP

At least two times in history, the census has been integral to rounding up no_hypocrisy Jul 2019 #1

WTF is going on....the Supreme Court said 'no' spanone Jul 2019 #2

no_hypocrisy

(46,129 posts)

1. At least two times in history, the census has been integral to rounding up

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jul 8, 2019, 09:36 AM

Jul 2019

a certain demographic in order to quarantine, sequester, and prosecute that group:

1. Germany used its census information during the Third Reich, with the help of IBM, to find Jews in order to force them from their homes, into the custody of the Reich, and into detention camps, later into death camps.

2. The United States used its census from 1940 to locate Japanese-Americans, to force them into giving up their homes and businesses and to be compelled to live on government compounds until the end of World War II.

Why would immigrants (esp. Mexican, Honduran, Salvadoran, etc.) believe THIS census would be any different no matter what Ross states?

spanone

(135,844 posts)

2. WTF is going on....the Supreme Court said 'no'

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jul 8, 2019, 09:37 AM

Jul 2019

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