Sentences with phrase «citizenship question»

SSRC President Alondra Nelson issues statement on the proposed inclusion of citizenship question in 2020 US census.

AALDEF opposes Trump administration's politicization of Census 2020 by adding citizenship question

At 11 a.m., state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announces a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration in response to a new citizenship question on the 2020 Census, 125 Barclay St., Manhattan.

Some were asked about their religion and their ethnic origins, and had the validity of their U.S. citizenship questioned.

Listen to Slate's show about the census citizenship question, Trump's (lack of) legal representation, and gerrymandering.

At 2 p.m., NY1's Errol Louis moderates a «newsmakers briefing» with NYC officials on the 2020 Census citizenship question, 219 West 40th St., Room 308, Manhattan.

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is firing off a lawsuit to stop the 2020 Census from asking the controversial citizenship question.

New York state is leading a group of 17 states in a lawsuit to try to remove a new citizenship question from the 2020 census questionnaire.

The federal government should scrap the citizenship question to ensure everyone responds, and we have an accurate count of all Americans.

Looking ahead: The Trump administration's decision to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census could hurt states with large immigrant populations — including Florida.

The citizenship question was dropped nearly 70 years ago, after the 1950 census.

Its written list of immigration «principles,» released Sunday night, doesn't say anything about the citizenship question, but it includes a kitchen sink of immigration restrictions.

Federal funding and congressional representation are at stake in the dispute over the Trump administration's move to reinstate the citizenship question to the 2020 census.

Seventeen states, the District of Columbia and six cities sued the U.S. government Tuesday, saying the addition of a citizenship question to the census form is unconstitutional.

JESA told Catholic news agency Fides: «Their identity is mocked, their citizenship questioned, their faith ridiculed.

But then again this is the ONLY POTUS in our history to have his citizenship questioned while in office... Remember, people will believe what they want to believe or what makes them feel comfortable or what makes them fit in.

Rep. Grace Meng, a Queens Democrat, explains in a Daily News OpEd why she's pushing back on the Trump administration's decision to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census forms.

Congress Member Carolyn B. Maloney (D - NY), co-Chair of the House Census Caucus, and Elijah E. Cummings (D - MD), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, led a letter of all Oversight Committee Democrats requesting that the Department of Justice produce documents to explain why and how the department requested that a citizenship question be added to the 2020 Census.

The Trump administration's plan to include a citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. Census isn't sitting well with several elected officials in Brooklyn.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, along with a coalition of fellow state attorneys general, a half - dozen cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors, announced a lawsuit Tuesday intended to block a citizenship question on the U.S. Census.

That does not mean that (1) all citizenship questions are necessarily on - topic there or (2) that any question ought to be moved to expatriates or (3) that this question in particular should be migrated there (it's not about leaving Cyprus or EU citizenship, it's about the relationship between the different parts of the island).

A coalition of attorneys general from 19 states, backed by the office of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, are pushing for the rejection of a citizenship question on the upcoming 2020 U.S. Census form.

Yet DOJ's effort to add a citizenship question to our Census directly targets state like New York that have large, thriving immigrant populations — threatening our representation in Congress and the Electoral College and billions of dollars in federal funds on which New Yorkers rely,» Schneiderman said.

The state AGs released a letter on Monday to the U.S. Department of Commerce and its secretary, Wilbur Ross, outlining their concerns over the potential inaccurate count because of the citizenship question.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Tuesday he's leading a multi-state lawsuit opposing the citizenship question.

But the Trump administration, as part of its hard - line stance on immigration, wants to add the citizenship question in the 2020 Census.

Healey signed onto a lawsuit led by Schneiderman last month challenging the administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the federal census.

Washington, D.C. — Today, Eric H. Holder, Jr., 82nd Attorney General of the United States and Chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), released the following statement on the Commerce Department's decision to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

First, it accepts DOJ's assertion that a citizenship question is needed to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

Last month the state's attorney general had joined colleagues in 18 other states in a letter to Ross urging him not to add a citizenship question.

Their input, the memo explains, led Ross to conclude that «the need for accurate citizenship data and the limited burden that the reinstatement of the citizenship question would impose outweigh fears about a potentially lower response rate.»

The absence of a permanent director and deputy director at the Census Bureau apparently forced Ross to conduct his own investigation into the impact of a citizenship question on response rates.

Adding the citizenship question «would destroy any chance for an accurate count, discard years of careful research, and increase costs significantly,» Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights in Washington, D.C., said in a statement.

The DOJ letter implies that placing a citizenship question on the 2020 census would simply correct a one - time blip in the agency's tracking of the issue.

The DOJ letter says ACS data alone are not good enough for its efforts to enforce the Voting Rights Act, but that the citizenship question should nevertheless be retained on the ACS.

Late last month, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross endorsed a controversial request from the Department of Justice to add a citizenship question to the decennial census.

The problem lies not simply with Ross's controversial, eleventh - hour decision last month to add a citizenship question to the decennial census, although civil rights groups, local and state governments, and business leaders believe the question will depress participation and jeopardize an accurate head count in 2020.

It asks many of the same questions as the census long - form surveys from 1970 to 2000, including the citizenship question.

The state of California has already sued to block the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census, and New York's state attorney general has announced plans for a multistate lawsuit.

Sanders said that in 2010 the citizenship question was removed.

«The Department of Commerce is not able to determine definitively how inclusion of a citizenship question on the decennial census will impact responsiveness.

Completing and returning decennial census questionnaires is required by Federal law, those responses are protected by law, and inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census will provide more complete information for those who respond,» Ross wrote.

Some state attorneys general reacted quickly after the Trump administration announced late Monday that it was adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

I actually read the recent question you referenced, and thought I was asking a slightly different question, to wit, can a person be compelled to answer the citizenship question (under pain of fine) by invoking 5th amendment privilege.

The usual suspects on the left are melting down because the U.S. Department of Commerce has reinstated the citizenship question to the 2020 census.