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July 24, 2020

Dear John,

The Trump administration this week announced that it will exclude unauthorized immigrants from the 2020 Census data used to reapportion the 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives among the 50 states. The plan is to match Census data with administrative data from other federal agencies to identify the citizenship and immigration status of Census respondents.

The result, due to inevitable data-matching errors, could exclude up to 20 million U.S. citizens from the once-a-decade exercise to decide political representation, as a new Migration Policy Institute commentary reveals. Indeed, a 2018 U.S. Census Bureau effort to match 2010 Census responses to administrative data produced a 9 percent failure rate, totaling 28 million people.

"The reason is that there is no foolproof method of knowing which Census respondents are U.S. citizens, which are legal immigrants, and which are unauthorized immigrants," write Randy Capps, Jennifer Van Hook, and Julia Gelatt.

The plan's effects could fall hardest on low-income urban and rural communities, the commentary notes, exacerbating any undercount that may occur in those locations and reducing their voting power relative to more affluent communities.

You can read this interesting and important commentary here: www.migrationpolicy.org/news/millions-us-citizens-could-be-excluded-under-plan-remove-unauthorized-immigrants-census.

With best regards,

Michelle Mittelstadt

Director of Communications and Public Affairs,
Migration Policy Institute

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