Census Bureau says it will stop trying to provide Trump with tally of undocumented
Tara Bahrampour, The Washington Post
Jan. 14, 2021
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. Census Bureau has apparently abandoned its effort to compile tallies of undocumented immigrants, effectively ending President Donald Trump's quest to exclude them from congressional apportionment, according to a letter posted on its website Wednesday afternoon.
The statement came a day after the Commerce Department's Office of Inspector General (OIG) sent a letter outlining reports from whistleblowers who said Trump appointees in the bureau have been making a last-ditch push to produce tallies of undocumented immigrants so the president could try to exclude them from congressional representation before he leaves office next week.