In losing legal battles over census, Trump may win political war

Posted on AllSides July 8th, 2019
From The Center

The Trump administration has few realistic options to get a citizenship question onto next year’s census, but by keeping the issue in the public eye it could still trigger an undercount of residents in Democratic-leaning areas, legal and political experts told Reuters.

Constant media coverage linking citizenship and census forms could scare undocumented immigrants away from responding and rally U.S. President Donald Trump’s base to participate, they said. That, in turn, would help redraw voting districts across the country in favor of his Republican party, encouraging the president to pursue...

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-census-legal/in-losing-legal-battles-over-census-trump-may-win-political-war-idUSKCN1U3121

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