Sentences with phrase «of citizenship question»

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.

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

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.

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.»

«We can not forget the fact this is a political plot,» said Velazquez of the citizenship question.

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.

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

Not exact matches

When Trump previously considered a White House run, Cohen worked with the National Enquirer in 2010 to promote the website ShouldTrumpRun.com and encouraged the supermarket tabloid to pursue stories questioning President Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship, two former staffers of the publication told The Associated Press.

The proposed question about citizenship, finally, is liable to exacerbate an existing inequality in the administration of justice.

Questions about citizenship may lead to a sense that even the census - taker — whose job is simply to get an accurate count of those resident within the United States — is helping the federal government with deportation.

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

The real question is whether we have the guts, the resolve and the strength to implement the necessary changes before we doom another generation of kids to lifetime under - employment, second - class citizenship or worse.

The case of the Octo - citizen raises some well - worn questions about economic residency and citizenship.

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

If we could get our politicians to debate the that question (regardless of whatever answer they came up with — 5, 15, 500), then we could give the most motivated of the of the world's population a solvable puzzle with a strongly motivating prize — US citizenship.

Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that a question on citizenship status will be reinstated to the 2020 decennial census questionnaire to help enforce the...

An equally unprecedented wave of complex risks, from climate change to cyber threats, calls into question the value of citizenship in even the most powerful economies in the world.

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.

Concerns about confidentiality and immigration status were discovered months before the Department of Justice asked to add a question about citizenship.

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

How we discharge the duties of citizenship — whether by accepting the creeping authoritarianism of the last two decades, or by raising our voices on behalf of the laws and democratic norms of our country — is a question of moral conscience, suitable for confession, and demanding repentance if we err.

Having said something as to the development of my discipleship, let me now take up the question of citizenship.

Still, without raising any question of the «fitness» of blacks for citizenship, it is fair to ask now about opportunities unexploited, about rights unexercised, about whether we are too much responsible for what ails our urban centers, about duty and obligation.

It has been easy for Westerners to sidestep the questions the book has raised and to take refuge in matters of freedom of speech, the limits of citizenship and state jurisdiction, due process and the rule of law — a response that involves little cross-cultural awareness.

The problem of the sovereignty of the nation state will be at the heart of this working area and, closely linked to sovereignty will arise two other questions: that of citizenship (over and above nationality) and of property (struggle against the private appropriation of material and immaterial resources by «intellectual property rights»; the redefinition of state property; the development on an inter-national, supra - national and world level of new forms of socialisation, of public ownership, and of mutualisation of the property).

Then comes the dark parable of the wicked tenants, and a question about taxes to test his citizenship.

He's younger, he's more cosmopolitan, he's intelligent, he's spent a significant amount of time living overseas, his religious faith is complicated at best, and his U.S. citizenship, while proven, has been questioned.

«Well, thats a good question to be asked of educated immigrants who have a pathway to citizenship who come to this country to answer those same questions, we need more archeologists, scientists and engineers to compete on the global market...»

Forty years later the Court was faced with a question of whether citizenship could be denied a person because he held reservations about taking arms in defense of his country.

A third reason for questioning economic growth is that as a means to an end, green republicans focus on the threshold beyond which the pursuit of economic growth does not add to human flourishing, or a healthy democratic polity, and associated forms of active citizenship and the civic fabric of a free society.

Those suits seek to block a reinstated citizenship question on the U.S. census and a proposed rule that would allow business to refuse aspects of healthcare based on religious beliefs, respectively.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

For Fitzpatrick and Gellately (1996: 766) the «problem of denunciation» rests upon «big philosophical questions of loyalty and citizenship»; of duties towards to state and responsibilities of the «good citizen» (ibid.

If one does want to take it seriously, it is a BNP argument, which implies the Mail questions the citizenship and patriotism of all of the 4.5 million non-white British citizens as well as many others - like Clegg - who have «foreign blood».

In a controversial move, the Commerce Department said the question of citizenship will again be included in the 2020 Census at the request of the Justice Department.

Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross» decision to add a controversial question on citizenship to the 2020 census came in the face of opposition from career officials at the Census Bureau who fear it will depress response rates, especially from immigrants.

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 question is not how Catalonia joins EU, but if it is possible to EXPEL Catalonia, as Catalonia as a part of Spain is now is a part of the EU (including EU citizenship).

Accordingly there are two interrelated questions that need to be explored in considering what a republican political economy could mean for today: First, what will it demand of citizens or what ideal of citizenship is being adopted?

«As things stand right now, you could (by showing residency) vote in CA without changing citizenship (the state asks few questions of its voters).»

Immigration activists in Syracuse have been filming federal border patrol agents questioning the citizenship status of travelers at the Regional Transportation Center.

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.

@DavidGrinberg - That's a great question, but it's really the domain of the answerer to describe that what other kinds of citizenship could be.

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).

Late last year, Mayor Kathy Sheehan responded to a request from Acting Assistant Attorney General Alan Hanson to explain how the city wasn't in violation of Section 1373, and she included the executive order that affirms Albany police will not question people on their immigration or citizenship status — except when necessary to probe possible criminal activity by that person.

Donald Trump's rhetoric on immigration and his dalliance into the «birther» movement questioning the authenticity of President Obama's citizenship hasn't helped matters with Hispanic and black voters.

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

The Trump administration has decided to reinstate a US Census question about citizenship to «help enforce» the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

According to Betsy Plum of the New York Immigration Council, this citizenship status question could lead to fears of arrest or deportation.

Historian Eric Foner, who has explored the question of U.S. birthright citizenship to other countries, argues that: