US President Donald Trump’s administration to announce an executive order to block undocumented immigrants from being counted in this year’s census. Trump is reportedly to sign the executive order on Friday. It was first reported by the Playbook newsletter of Politico. President Trump and his team of hard-line immigration advisers including Stephen Miller have targeted the annual count of all people living in the United States before. Point to be noted that he lost a battle in July 2019 when he dropped a bid to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. President Trump slammed federal judges and the Supreme Court on 19th July 2019 for blocking his desire to add the question during a White House event.
Trump also dubbed that decision a ”left-wing” effort to erode the rights of American citizens and teased a solution that he rolled out later that day in a Rose Garden event. He said, ”We will defend the right of the American people to know the full facts about the population, size of citizens, and non-citizens in America. Knowing this information is vital to formulating sound public policy”. Last year, President announced his administration would mandate each federal department to give the Commerce Department every record about non-citizens and citizens who are in the United States. It is noteworthy that Chairman Republican Senator Jerry Moran and Vice Chairwoman Democrat Senator Jeanne Shaheen of a Senate spending committee allocate census funding.
The Census Director Stephen Dillingham wrote on 7th July and said, “It is imperative for the census to count every person in the United States, where they live, and this includes communities that for various reasons have historically had low participation in decennial censuses. We expect that data processing will be free from political interference and that the highest standards of integrity and fairness will be upheld. We will be closely watching to ensure this is the case. We expect the bureau to continue to update the committee regularly on its progress and to be alerted immediately should you require additional resources for the 2020 Decennial Census”.