William H. Frey, Nov. 29, 2023 "Immigration has become one of the nation’s most contentious political issues. Yet there has been less public attention paid to broader immigration policy than to sensational characterizations of open borders, illegal...
Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, Feb. 15, 2021 "Even before taking office, former President Donald Trump's administration obsessed over the U.S. census. From a failed bid for a citizenship question to a presidential memo about unauthorized immigrants that was...
City of San Jose v. Trump "Before us are Plaintiffs’ Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss, or in the Alternative, Motion for Partial Summary Judgment regarding the Presidential Memorandum of July 21, 2020, which declared...
State of New York v. Trump "In a Presidential Memorandum issued on that date (and entered into the Federal Register two days later), the President declared that, “[f]or the purpose of the reapportionment of Representatives following the 2020 census” — which...
Cyrus Mehta, Aug. 30, 2020 The Impossible Feat of Determining Who is an “Illegal Alien” Under Trump’s Unconstitutional Census Executive Order "In line with other xenophobic actions too numerous to keep tabs on, President Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum...
New York Attorney General Letitia James, July 24, 2020 "New York Attorney General Letitia James today led a large coalition of states, cities, and counties in filing a lawsuit against President Donald Trump for attempting to, once again, illegally leave...
Prof. Marty Lederman, July 25, 2020 - Trump's Memorandum on Not Counting Undocumented Immigrants for Purposes of House Reapportionment Calculations "Contrary to what you might have read, President Trump’s “Memorandum on Excluding Illegal Aliens From...
Nick Cahill, July 23, 2020 "The city of Atlanta, along with a coalition of nonprofits and naturalized citizens, sued late Thursday to stop President Donald Trump’s plan to exclude undocumented people from the upcoming census. In a federal lawsuit filed...
Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, July 21, 2020 "President Trump released a memorandum Tuesday that calls for an unprecedented change to the constitutionally mandated count of every person living in the country — the exclusion of unauthorized immigrants from the numbers...
ACLU, July 21, 2020 "The American Civil Liberties Union calls President Trump’s order seeking to ban immigrants who are undocumented from being counted in the census patently unconstitutional. Dale Ho, director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project , successfully...
Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, Jan. 4, 2020 "The Department of Homeland Security has agreed to share certain government records from its databases to help the Census Bureau produce data about the U.S. citizenship status of every person living in the country. DHS...
NY v. Dept. of Commerce "[T]he Court concludes on the merits that Secretary Ross violated the APA in multiple independent ways. Most blatantly, Secretary Ross ignored, and violated, a statute that requires him, in circumstances like those here, to collect...
Muzaffar Chishti and Jessica Bolter, MPI, Oct. 24, 2018 - "As the timeline for launching the 2020 decennial census approaches fast, legal and political controversy surrounds the Trump administration’s inclusion of a question on citizenship status. The question...
Committee on National Statistics’ Task Force on the 2020 Census, National Academies of Sciences, Aug. 7, 2018 - "The addition of the citizenship question to the 2020 decennial census questionnaire, as described in the Federal Register notice and the Secretary...
"New census data released Thursday affirm a clear and sustained drop in illegal immigration, ending more than a decade of increases. The number of [unauthorized] immigrants in the U.S. dropped to an estimated 11.1 million last year from a peak of 12 million...