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The United States Census Bureau has stopped all work to comply with President Trump’s directive to produce a count of unauthorized immigrants, state by state , that would have been used to alter a key set of census numbers , as reported by NPR.
Authorities of the Office of the Census instructed the internal team assigned to comply with the presidential memorandum of Trump that will retire and immediately cease work Tuesday night , according to an office employee who spoke to NPR on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation in your workplace.
The civil servants’ measure effectively ends the office’s involvement in Trump’s attempt to effect change without precedents in the census figures of 2020 will be used to reallocate each state’s share of Congressional seats and polling station votes over the next decade.
As per Amendment 14, those counts should include the “total number of people in each state.”
The census is conducted in the United States, by constitutional mandate, each 10 years and their results depend on the representation of the States in Congress and in the Electoral College and the distribution billions of dollars in federal education, health, infrastructure and social assistance programs.
In response to NPR reports on the Dillingham directive, Senator Jeanne Shaheen, of New Hampshire, the prin The Democratic chief on the Senate appropriations subcommittee that funds the office issued a tweet criticizing Trump for doing “a mission to manipulate the census.”
The senator said she will work with the administration of Joe Biden to “repair the damage Trump caused.”
President Trump made a mission out of manipulating the census. His politicization of the 2020 census has been dangerous & destructive to our democratic institution. That ends in 8 days. I’ll work w / the Biden admin to see these policies reversed & repair the damage Trump caused. https://t.co/CdjeM5IW2L
– Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (@SenatorShaheen) January 13, 2021
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The news was released after it emerged that the Department of Commerce investigates pressure from political appointees for the Census Bureau to hand over to the Trump Administration, no later than Friday, the Results of the registration of 2020 with figures on legal residents and undocumented immigrants in the country, just days before Trump leaves office next week.
Commerce Department Inspector General, Peggy Gustafson , had sent a letter to the director of the Census Bureau, Steven Dillingham, indicating He had learned of the order given by him, according to which the production of the report was a “priority number one.”
“We also understand that two political appointees in the Office -Nathaniel Cogley and Benjamin Overholt- who are the ones promoting this work will leave the Office in the next few days ”, added the official, who gave Dillingham until the Thursday afternoon to answer your questions.
Trump ordered the Census Bureau in July to present the data in such a way that it would be possible to distinguish undocumented immigrants with the purpose of excluding them from the total population when distributing representations policies and federal funding for the next decade, which would affect quite a number of Democratic jurisdictions.
This caused several lawsuits to be filed on an issue that reached the Supreme Court of Justice, which, in December mbre, indicated that there was not enough information to give a ruling, with which the matter has been postponed until after the inauguration of the new government of president-elect, Joe Biden.
In her letter, Inspector Gustafson demanded that the director of the Census Bureau explain “what are the purposes and uses who will have this report “hurried.
” Did you order the production of this report due to the advice or order of other persons or entities? “, he added. “If yes, who?”
With information from EFE
