Internal document reveals Trump admin strategies to omit undocumented immigrants from census

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Census officials in the Trump admin. prepared a briefing for then-Sec. Ross last August on several strategies to exclude undocumented immigrants from the 2020 Census, per internal document obtained through a public record request and provided to NBCNews.

obtained through a public record request by the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center and provided to NBC News.

There is no indication the plan was executed. Last September, a federal court blocked Trump's order and President Joe Biden reversed the directive soon after taking office. Biden also blocked another Trump directive that the bureau collect citizenship information about every U.S. resident using administrative records, which came after the Supreme Court nixed the Trump administration's effort to add a citizenship question to the census questionnaire.

Trump officials knew that the data would be inaccurate because each strategy in the document had “pros” and “cons” for each strategy, and one option would flout Supreme Court precedent, Ford said.

 

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