The disclosure adds more context to how the Trump administration decided to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach discussed adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census with Donald Trump’s advisers during the 2016 presidential campaign, he told the House Committee on Oversight and Reform this week. Kobach also discussed adding the question with Trump and his top advisers, including Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus, shortly after the president was inaugurated.
The Trump administration says it needs the question on the census so it can better enforce the Voting Rights Act. But critics say that its real intent is to decrease political power in states with large immigrant populations. Ross was interested in adding the question long before the Trump administration offered that rationale in December of 2017, the emails show.
Ross and Kobach also spoke directly on the telephone about adding the citizenship question. He also sent him an email recommending that the census ask about immigration status. It was a problem, Kobach wrote, that a count of noncitizens and citizens alike determined how many congressional seats each state got.
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