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TAKING LEAVE OF HER CENSUS

AOC calls on illegal immigrants to fill out 2020 survey

The census is a once-a-decade population count that determines how $1.5 trillion in federal spending is allocated, and also how many congressional seats each state gets. The Census Bureau notes that it counts “our population and households” in the U.S.

And they complain about Russian interference in the elections.

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Why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Questions on the Census Matter

With no Trump administration officials present to answer questions, she was free to fill in the blanks.

https://www.gq.com/story/aoc-census-questions

At issue during Wednesday's event were the Department of Commerce's strenuous efforts to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 edition of the survey. According to internal Census Bureau estimates, asking these questions could decrease response rates by five percent, making those who do not participate—leery of revealing such sensitive information to the government—invisible in the eyes of the state. A large-scale Census undercount of immigrants could significantly affect congressional apportionment, diverting federal resources and power away from more diverse Democratic-leaning areas and toward whiter, more Republican areas for the next decade.

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