Census
This episode of Power Station tracks the latest news on the lawsuit, filed by Asian Americans Advancing Justice and Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, challenging the inclusion of an untested citizenship question on the decennial U.S. Census.
State Fact Sheets: Why the Census Matters for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Communities
Our blog on the race and ethnicity question on the census examines how question has evolved over the years to provide a more accurate picture of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. This blog is available in English on our Medium account.
Factsheet: Why the Census Matters for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Communities
This national census factsheet is also available in Chinese. If you would like to print this document, you will need to download the file for the full factsheet to appear.
Join Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates national and DC chapter for a community convening on the census, naturalization, and state and local immigration policies. We will discuss how we can collaborate around each topic and build stronger alliances among Asian American and Muslim, Arab, and South Asian American communities in Maryland.
Trial Begins Today in Federal Lawsuit Accusing Trump Administration of Anti-Minority Motive Behind Census Citizenship Question
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Greenbelt, MD—A federal trial begins today in a lawsuit alleging that Trump administration officials and others intentionally conspired to deprive racial minorities of their constitutional rights by adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
El Pueblo joins suit accusing Trump administration of racial discrimination with 2020 Census question
Local advocacy group El Pueblo joined a lawsuit last week challenging the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
The 2020 document will ask people living in the U.S. if they are citizens (for the first time since 1950). If some people avoid answering the question, the administration wants to use other government documents to fill in the blank.
A Houston lawmaker has joined the nationwide fight to remove a question slated for the 2020 U.S. Census.
On Friday, State Representative Gene Wu announced that he named himself as a plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Two dozen Latino and Asian-American organizations filed a federal lawsuit Thursday alleging that the Trump administration's plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census is racially discriminatory and violates the U.S. Constitution.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Asian Americans Advancing Justice, claims the decision to add a question asking people if they are U.S. citizens is motivated by racial animus.