“This new council will lead the charge coordinating stakeholders so we can reach our most difficult to count communities and help ensure New York is accurately represented and gets the federal funding we need and deserve,” he added.
On the other hand, Martin Luther King III, said, “Being counted in the Census may well be second only to voting when it comes to citizen action in the Democrat process. Unfortunately, people of color are the ones most often undercounted, which leads to negative consequences for their communities.”
Trump administration’s efforts to obtain citizenship information in the 2020 Census
The U.S. Department of Commerce tried to include a citizenship question into the 2020 Census, but the U.S. Supreme Court blocked it in June last year.
Following the decision of the court, Pres. Donald Trump issued an executive order to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to share citizenship information with the U.S. Census Bureau.
In December, the DHS released a document indicating that it will “now provide citizenship and benefits information about individuals to the U.S. Census Bureau” pursuant to Trump’s executive order.
