Trump Wants Citizenship Data Released But States Haven't Asked Census For That

npr.org ^ | 9/1/2019 | HANSI LO WANG

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After its failed attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, the Trump administration has forged ahead with ordering the Census Bureau to use government records to produce data about the U.S. citizenship status of every person living in the country.

In July, the bureau quietly filed a regulatory document confirming that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross — who oversees the federal government's largest statistical agency — had directed it "to produce Citizenship Voting Age Population" information "that states may use in redistricting."

Last December, the bureau announced it was formally collecting feedback from state redistricting officials on the type of demographic information needed to redraw voting districts after the 2020 census.

"If those stakeholders indicate a need for tabulations of citizenship data on the 2020 Census Public Law 94-171 Redistricting Data File, the Census Bureau will make a design change to include citizenship as part of that data," the bureau said in a Federal Register notice.

 It turns out that not a single stakeholder told the Census Bureau there was a need to include citizenship information in the redistricting data, the bureau announced this week in a regulatory document filed with the White House's Office of Management and Budget.

But the bureau is still planning to release citizenship information, separate from the redistricting data file, by March 2021.

The announcement raises questions about exactly why Trump administration officials have cited state redistricting as a reason to push for the release of citizenship data that are more detailed than the estimates from the bureau's American Community Survey.

Before he died, GOP redistricting strategist Thomas Hofeller concluded in an unpublished study that detailed citizenship information could allow for the redrawing of voting districts that would be "advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites." Trump administration attorneys, however, have argued that Hofeller played "little, if any, role in advocating for a citizenship question" that would have produced detailed citizenship data.

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Article refers to the president's EO.

Executive Order on Collecting Information about Citizenship Status in Connection with the Decennial Census

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-collecting-information-citizenship-status-connection-decennial-census/

 

Issued on: July 11, 2019

[Steely Tom]

Trump Wants Citizenship Data Released But States Haven't Asked Census For That

And of course NPR isn't interested in information of that nature.

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Trump Wants Citizenship Data Released But States Haven't Asked Census For That

And of course NPR isn't interested in information of that nature.

 

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"Before he died, GOP redistricting strategist Thomas Hofeller concluded in an unpublished study that detailed citizenship information could allow for the redrawing of voting districts that would be "advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites." 

Gosh, you'd think they'd beg for it. :/

The story seems to be written in a cagey manner, so I tried accessing the linked study (see above) to which they refer. Reading sections of it just triggers more questions. There's this first quote, for example:

 

Well, gee. What a concept! So what ARE they using? I looked further and found this:

I keep reading and see that 3 states allow "prisoners from other states" to be removed from census info! Progress!? Those three states are New York, Maryland and Delaware. This removal of prisoners from census in these states is called "prisoner adjustment" also moves the counts for prisoners who resided in-state prior to incarceration to the district they lived in.  Prisoner adjustment is believed to favor Democrats. What a coincidence! :) I just scratched the surface, but exposing the census rules crafted during the Democrat years probably contains more surprises. It's 126 pages though....

 

 

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What Democrats have been doing is cutting communities up by grouping areas where given minorities reside and assigning them to a legislative district with the result being this;

COULD THIS BE WHY CHICAGOANS ARE SEEING RATS ?
The city of Chicago is composed of 50 wards which average out to around 72 precincts of about 350 or more voters in each precinct. Many are former villages incorporated into the city as the city grew. . A Chicago Alderman is in effect a mini mayor. They have input into who gets city services and now it’s how those services are being administered seem to be running into who’s ward is it ?.

What’s not being looked at is how Chicago wards have been redistricted. Chicago has had neighborhoods divided to create “Hispanic”residential sections going to Hispanic aldermanic and congressional (Gutierez) candidates and blacks going to black candidates.Which apparently is the result of the turnover in the Freddie and Fanny mortgage collapse. As stable integrated areas changed into being unstable because of constant dwelling turnover.had the effect of breaking up a contiguous geographic continuity and community identity. Because the wards affected which are really like small towns have had sections broken up into areas where if a problem arises in a given section of street which has one way traffic only. It may be two way a block down because it’s in a different ward. The same applies to all other city services including zoning and sanitation where garbage collection routes are organized by ward boundaries,
By.employing this concept of remapping are residents are being denied the representation they should have ?

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Interesting. Something to think about and perhaps read again. Thank you. :)

[VeniVidiVici]

NPR and the rest of the Democrat Party don’t believe in the 10th Amendment.

[Dr. Sivana]

Actually, enforcing the law would also increase the relative voting power of U.S. blacks, since fewer blacks are illegal aliens relative to the general U.S. population.

[morphing libertarian]

workarounds don’t always work. I remember when he asked for voter registration info and 17 states said no and he did nothing. Put the question on the census form and stop letting the courts run the country.

[SharpRightTurn]

“The announcement raises questions about exactly why Trump administration officials have cited state redistricting as a reason to push for the release of citizenship data that are more detailed than the estimates from the bureau’s American Community Survey.”

I’m pretty sure National Panhandler Radio has been one of the news sources in the past that has screamed “the public’s right to know” as loudly as possible. Why would they want to keep this information secret?