Topic
Census
144 published works
Religion Clause
2020 Census Will Tabulate Sikhs As Ethnic Category
India West reported yesterday that for the first time, Sikhs can be counted in the ongoing 2020 census as a separate group, despite the legal prohibition on the census asking…
Napoli Shkolnik Blog
The Census: Stand Up and Be Counted
The clock is ticking on the 2020 U.S. Census. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the government recently moved the deadline to September 30, 2020. This decision is a stunning reversal…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Impossible Feat of Determining Who is an “Illegal Alien” Under Trump’s Unconstitutional Census Executive Order
Cyrus Mehta for the Insightful Immigration Blog critically -- and insightfully -- analyzes President Trump's Presidential Memorandum dated July 21, 2020 (“Memorandum on Excluding Illegal Aliens From the Apportionment Base…
The Insightful Immigration Blog
The Impossible Feat of Determining Who is an “Illegal Alien” Under Trump’s Unconstitutional Census Executive Order
By Cyrus Mehta
In line with other xenophobic actions too numerous to keep tabs on, President Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum dated July 21, 2020 entitled “Memorandum on Excluding Illegal Aliens From the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Ekene Ijeoma’s audio portrait of who counts in America
Professor Ekene Ijeoma's A Counting provides an audio portrait of American diversity by splicing together the voices of foreign-born Americans counting to 100 in their native languages. The audio portrait…
The Right Coast
These states would lose House seats under Trump Census order: study
According to a study from the Pew Research Center, California, Florida and Texas would each end up with one less representative than they would otherwise get, based on overall population change.via…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Census 2020: Controversy to Result in a Record Undercount?
Based on the census count every ten years, the seats in the House of Representatives are distributed according to the number of people living in the country. Earlier this week,…
The Faculty Lounge
Who Wrote Trump’s Census Memorandum?
In his recently issued "Memorandum on Excluding Illegal Aliens from the Apportionment Base Following the 2020 Census," President Trump asserts that he has the authority "to exclude from the apportionment…
The Right Coast
Trump Seeks to Stop Counting Unauthorized Immigrants in Drawing House Districts – The New York Times
WASHINGTON President Trump directed the federal government on Tuesday not to count undocumented immigrants when allocating the nation s House districts, a move that critics called a transparent political ploy…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Mother Jones: “Trump’s New Census Directive Is Almost Certainly Unconstitutional His memorandum would exclude undocumented immigrants when drawing congressional districts.”
President Trump issued a memorandum on Tuesday attempting to prevent undocumented immigrants from being counted when determining congressional representation based on the 2020 census.Ari Berman for Mother Jones states that"The…