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New York Court Blocks Citizenship Question From 2020 Census
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Washington, D.C. – Today, Judge Jesse Furman ruled in the case of New York v. U.S. Department of Commerce to block the addition of the citizenship question on the grounds it violated the Administrative Procedure Act. U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was found to have clearly violated federal law in attempting to add the question.
John C. Yang, president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC issues the following statement in response to the federal court ruling:
As if the InJustice Department weren’t busy enough, DOJ wrote to the U.S. Census Bureau on December 12 to request that a new citizenship question be added to the 2020 Census.
The DOJ Wants A Citizenship Question On The Census. That Could Blow Up The Whole Survey
The Department of Justice’s recent request to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census has sparked concerns that such a move would lower response rates within immigrant communities.
Ward Connerly is founder and president of the American Civil Rights Institute. Mike Gonzalez is senior fellow in the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation.
The American people are dangerously divided, but one event looming on the horizon has the potential to put us on a path toward unity: the U.S. census.
As the federal government prepares for the 2020 Census, some community advocates are questioning the extent to which underfunding will affect the results of the constitutionally mandated headcount, done once every 10 years.
据美国侨报网编译称，托马斯ⷩ(Thomas Nguyen）的成长经历很可能反映了许多在美国南部长大的亚裔群体的生活。20世纪80年代，得州本德堡县（Fort Bend County）还基本都是白人社区，许多当地的孩子甚至都没见过亚裔面孔。阮回忆，他的父母是1975年赴美国的。阮说，(薛家岛在线 www.xuejiadao.net)，那个时候，他经常因为人们对亚裔的刻板印象而遭到嘲笑。但如今，快速增长的人口亚裔，正改变美国南部地区。
《赫芬顿邮报》（Huffington Post）报道称，类似的故事在亚裔群体中并不少见。但现在，亚裔已成为美国增长最快的族群。加州大学河滨分校的政策研究项目“亚裔美国人与太平洋岛民”（AAPI）数据显示，美国南部地区的亚裔人口增长速度最快。
根据亚美公义促进中心（Asian Americans Advancing Justice）对美国人口普查局（U.S。 Census Bureau）的数据进行分析得出，2000年至2010年间，美国南部地区亚裔数量增加了69%。
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Ethnic and minority advocates are raising alarms about preparations for the 2020 U.S. Census, saying it is already underfunded and understaffed and that a just-added citizenship question has now made it inappropriately political.
Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference Education Fund, on Thursday said the $3.8 billion that President Trump has budgeted for the census is $933.5 million short of what is needed to thoroughly and accurately count the nation's 325 million-plus residents.
The Commerce Department is reinstating a citizenship question to the 2020 Census for the first time in decades, a move that some argue will lead to an undercount of minorities living in the United States.
States, civil rights groups challenge decision to include citizenship question in census
WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — Though the Commerce Department asserts its decision to include a question about citizenship status in the 2020 census will produce more accurate data and ensure fair representation for all U.S. residents, census experts and civil rights groups warn the impact could be exactly the opposite.
Desde que el gobierno de Trump anunció que añadirá una interrogante sobre el estatus de las personas al formulario del Censo, líderes comunitarios están considerando como responder ante el peligro de perder recursos y representación política.
Añadir una pregunta de ciudadanía al Censo 2020 aumentará la desconfianza de las familias inmigrantes.
POR: PILAR MARRERO
05 ABRIL 2018