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Advancing Justice | AAJC and MALDEF Sue Trump Administration, Challenging Addition of Citizenship Question to 2020 Census
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Washington, D.C. – The Trump administration’s eleventh-hour decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census violates the U.S. Constitution because it is racially discriminatory and could result in a severe undercount of minorities, according to a federal lawsuit filed today by nearly two dozen groups and individuals.
Asian American Plaintiffs Speak Out Against Census Citizenship Question
Andy Kang, Legal Director at Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Chicago: “Accurate Census data was critical to Advancing Justice-Chicago’s success in establishing a state task force to evaluate/analyze/assess in-language government services for immigrant communities.
There has not been a citizenship question asked on the decennial census in the past 70 years. There is no basis for adding it now.
We do not need this question to enforce the Voting Rights Act, as some have suggested. In fact, since the Voting Rights Act was enacted in 1965, the Census Bureau has provided the Department of Justice with citizenship data from other surveys that have been used by litigators and the federal courts to enforce the VRA. The Supreme Court has confirmed that the current methods are constitutional.
The U.S. Constitution mandates a count of all persons living in the United States every 10 years. Unfortunately, each decade, some members of the public are reluctant to participate in the census based on fear of government and potential misuse of their responses. Lack of trust in the confidentiality of census data presents a major barrier to census participation, despite the survey’s mandatory nature.
New Report Calls for Increased Resources in 2020 Census for Boys and Men, Especially Asian American and Pacific Islanders
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Washington, D.C. – April 6, 2018 – Asian American and Pacific Islander boys and men are disproportionately susceptible to being miscounted in the 2020 Census, according to a new report from Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (Advancing Justice | AAJC) and the Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF), and sponsored by RISE for Boys and Men of Color.
Learn more about the alarming decision from the Department of Commerce to add an untested and unnecessary question on citizenship status to the 2020 Census. This factsheet summarizes why this is bad for our communities and for America, and what you can do to help fight back.