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The department said in March that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross decided to add the citizenship question after the Department of Justice requested it, in order to better enforce federal voting law.

A group of states and cities and several immigrant rights groups have sued to block the proposed question. They said it could lead to undercounting in states with large immigrant populations, jeopardizing their political representation and access to federal funds.

Furman said in Thursday’s decision that while Ross had the power to include the question, which was included in the census prior to 1960, he may have used it improperly. The judge also said his stated reason may have been “pretextual.”

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U.S. loses bid to dismiss lawsuit over census citizenship question

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lawsuit-census/u-s-loses-bid-to-dismiss-lawsuit-over-census-citizenship-question-idUSKBN1KG20N





I have the feeling the Supreme Court will allow the question on the 2020 Census. The BS about it causing under counting is just dumb.
The real reason is that states like NY and California would be giving the identities of illegals to ICE, or would be justifying the need for Voter ID.

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No

under counting with lack of participation is a real problem in many communities and add on a question really designed as a weapon under an administration with a harder stance on deportation and it will make participation even less likely

affecting funding which in turn hurts education and the needed resources for that community

I realize that you are in favor of sacrificing communities in order to snake out undocumented immigrants but as usual I strongly disagree

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Yeah. Ya know when you start calling them illegal immigrants, maybe I'll start hearing what you have to say.

What would be your term for murderers? Life removal technicians?

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday sought to speed up the deportation of illegal immigrants, telling immigration judges they should only postpone cases in removal proceedings “for good cause shown.”

Sessions, in an interim order that was criticized by some lawyers, said the “good-cause” standard “limits the discretion of immigration judges and prohibits them from granting continuances for any reason or no reason at all.”

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Sessions said on Thursday that the “use of continuances as a dilatory tactic is particularly pernicious in the immigration context” because people in the country illegally who want to remain have an incentive to delay their deportation as long as possible.

Granting continuances solely for good cause would be an “important check on immigration judges’ authority” and demonstrate public interest in “expeditious enforcement of the immigration laws,” Sessions said.

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“Together, the USCIS actions significantly increase the likelihood that a long-term employee-who has followed the rules and who has been authorized by the U.S. government multiple times to work in the United States-will lose his or her status,” the letter said.

“At a time when the number of job vacancies are reaching historic highs due to labor shortages, now is not the time restrict access to talent,” the letter added.

The government should not change the rules in the middle of the process as it could result in unnecessary costs and complications, the executives said in a letter to the Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

Nielsen, a Trump appointee, told reporters at a White House briefing on Thursday that the administration was only strictly enforcing the law.

“This administration did not create a policy of separating families ... What has changed is that we no longer exempt entire classes of people who break the law,” she said.

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Wolf on Thursday rejected the Justice Department’s claim that he lacked jurisdiction under federal law to hear any lawsuit challenging the authority of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which ICE forms part of, to enforce a removal order against an immigrant.

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hey ghot, have the data for 2016-2018 ?

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