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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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Trump administration to add citizenship question to 2020 census - HUGE, LONG OVERDUE WINNING!!!

washingtontimes.com

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Updated: 9:38 p.m. on Monday, March 26, 2018


The Trump administration announced late Monday that it will ask a question about citizenship on the 2020 census, moving to restore a critical but controversial piece of data from the decennial count.


Immigrant-rights groups had vehemently opposed the move, arguing it would rub some people the wrong way and scare them from participating, and would thus skew the count that is critical to doling out hundreds of billions of dollars in government aid and to fundamental democratic functions such as divvying up congressional seats.

Several minority-rights activists called it data “sabotage.”

But the Justice Department has asked for the question to be restored, saying they needed it to better enforce critical laws such as the Voting Rights Act. ...
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