To say that leaving immigrants out of that would seriously tilt the balance of power in this country, even more than before, would be an understatement.
This memorandum comes in the middle of the 2020 U.S. Census, with reports showing that 62.2% of the country has already responded since April. Besides, this move might also scare immigrants who haven’t yet responded away from answering the Census.
But as quickly as the order was signed, the American Civil Liberties Union already has plans to challenge the memo. Dale Ho, the director of the ACLU's Voting Rights Project,, saying, “We’ll see him in court, and win, again.” Ho said he’s confident that Trump’s “latest attempt to weaponize the census for an attack on immigrant communities will be found unconstitutional.”
This is not the first time Trump has used the Census to advance his anti-immigrant agenda either. In 2019, he attempted to geton the 2020 census at the Supreme Court. States like California and New York argued that the question would turn immigrant communities away from answering and cost state governments critical funding.
At the time, Trump also suggested that data could be used to more properly redraw districts based on the number of eligible voters within them. The Supreme Court ultimately rejected the attempt to put a citizenship question on the survey. This latest memorandum only seems to be a continuation of that effort to suppress immigrant communities’ participation in government.
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