Posted on January 24, 2021 by sethlerner1964
NPR reports that the U.S. Census Bureau has halted all work on President Trump’s directive to produce a state-by-state count of unauthorized immigrants, which the president planned to use to alter a key set of census numbers that will be used to reallocate each state’s share of congressional seats and Electoral College votes for the next decade. Three lower courts found the president’s memo unlawful, unconstitutional, or both before the Supreme Court ruled in December that it was too early for any court to weigh in because the case is “riddled with contingencies and speculation.
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Posted on December 2, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Months ago, President Trump announced he would order the Commerce Department to exclude undocumented immigrants from census reporting, which is used to determine state’s seats in the House of Representatives. Nearly half the states, including several cities and counties, filed suit and compared his move to slavery-era rules that limited which “persons” were counted for political purposes. Nearly 30 amicus briefs were filed on the issues. The Supreme Court took up the case in October, and is scheduled to hear oral argument
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Posted on November 18, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
AG Barr issued a decision that unwound a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) ruling that allowed persecutors to apply for asylum if they could prove they were forced into their bad acts, saying past and present legislation clashed with the exception. This decision eliminated a narrow crack in the “persecutor bar,” which prevents anyone who has participated in the victimization of individuals from seeking asylum in the U.S. This decision vacated a June 2018 order from a split BIA panel, and shifted the burden of proof from DHS to asylum-seekers.
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Posted on October 30, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
On Monday, the Supreme Court said it would review cases concerning the Trump administration’s use of Defense Department money to build the border wall and its policy that forces asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases work through the immigration court system in the U.S., also known as the Remain in Mexico policy. The justices did not expedite either case, meaning that they will be heard next year, with rulings expected mid-2021. This decision came after the justices said last Friday they would rule on the Trump administration’s effort to exclude immigrants in the country illegally from the census.
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Posted on July 27, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Trump directed the federal government not to count undocumented immigrants in the census when allocating districts in the House of Representatives. This directive would exclude millions of people and is in conflict with the normal interpretation of the census in the Constitution. The effect of this move would very likely shift several seats from Democratic states to Republican states. However, since the citizenship question was never included on the census, it is unclear how this move would be carried out.
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Posted on February 20, 2020 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
A survey found that 8 out of 10 Latinos also recognized the benefits of increased participation in the census. Despite this, a new poll found that about ¾ of Latinos are concerned that information gathered in the census will be used against them. Some of the concern comes from the confusion about the citizenship question: many do not know that the question will not be on the census, and none of the census advertising clarifies this.
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Posted on July 8, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
CNN reports that the Supreme Court has blocked a citizenship question from being added to the 2020 census for the time being. Writing for a 5-4 majority, Chief Justice John Roberts concluded that there was sufficient reason for concern about why the Commerce Department wanted to add the question. President Trump tweeted that he has asked lawyers whether it’s possible to delay the census.
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Posted on April 30, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
CNN reports that Supreme Court justices were deeply divided yesterday over whether the Trump administration can add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. Five former directors of the Census Bureau, who have served under both Democratic and Republican administrations, filed an amicus brief in the case, stating that, “The longstanding view of the Census Bureau—reaffirmed by several recent Census Bureau analyses—is that addition of the [citizenship] question will reduce the accuracy of the population.”
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