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July 22, 2020

Trump Moves to Exclude Undocumented People from Census
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In immigration news, President Trump has signed a memorandum ordering
the Commerce Department to exclude millions of undocumented people from
the 2020 census, that will be used to determine the number of U.S. House
seats each state receives when voting district lines are redrawn next
year. The unprecedented move reverses a long-standing policy of counting
everyone regardless of their immigration status, and is being denounced
as an attempt to preserve white Republican political power. Civil and
voting rights groups have already vowed to challenge the move. This is
Ben Monterroso, an advocate with the voting rights group Poder Latinx.

Ben Monterosso: "It's not only unconstitutional; it's illegal, and it's
immoral. It's one more time the president has shown his true color of
the racism that he has in his blood. Our community needs to be counted
and will be counted, for the good of our country and for the good of our
community."



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