Trump administration proposes excluding certain immigrants from US census

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Sob a proposta, divulgada pelo Department of Commerce na quarta-feira, cidadãos dos US e residentes permanentes legais seriam contabilizados no censo.

Other foreign nationals, however, including people with temporary legal status and immigrants without documentation, would be excluded.

Population counts have wide-ranging purposes, determining the allocation of everything from government resources to seats in the House of Representatives.

A proposta também sugere eliminar certas perguntas sobre raça e etnia do questionário, citando “substantial doubts about the meaning, significance, and impact” dessas categorias e questionando sua “usefulness” contínua.

It continues by arguing that limiting the questions would boost participation in the census, which is mandated every 10 years.

A proposta de censo é uma das várias iniciativas da administração Trump que poderiam remodelar o poder eleitoral, juntamente com a redistribuição de distritos do Congresso e restrições de votação por correio.

The proposal says undocumented immigrants and other foreign nationals who lack a sufficiently durable legal status should not be included because they are not “true inhabitants” and lack a sufficient “tie and allegiance” to the US.

The change would be a departure from historical precedent. The 1790 Census Act instructed government workers to count anyone who has a “usual place of abode” in the US, regardless of citizenship status.

A proposta de quarta-feira também busca verificar como as pessoas indicam seu status de cidadania no questionário do censo.

Already, it is a federal crime to lie on the census. But Wednesday’s proposal suggests cross-referencing responses about citizenship with other government records, including files from the Department of Homeland Security and Treasury, which oversees the government’s tax collection agency.

It would also add questions about legal immigration status to the short-form questionnaire.

Trump havia tentado adicionar uma pergunta sobre cidadania ao censo de 2020 durante seu primeiro mandato, mas em 2019, o Supremo Tribunal bloqueou a iniciativa após descobrir que a justificativa da administração parecia “contrived”.

Critics fear such questions could be used to drive Trump’s mass deportation campaign, which he has promised will be the largest in US history.

It could also drive down participation in the census, which would then distort key information about US communities, risking their access to resources.

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William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a public policy nonprofit, said the proposal goes beyond changing how the census is conducted.

Frey alerta que a proposta pode ter um efeito mais amplo de intimidação na participação do censo, mesmo que falhe.

The Justice Department warned on September 2 that states could lose billions of dollars in welfare funding if they fail to report immigrants known by state agencies to be in the country without documentation.

The US Census Bureau did not respond to Al Jazeera’s request for comment.

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