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.
The director of the Census Bureau has pushed career employees to finalize a technical document that would help achieve President Trump’s goal of excluding undocumented immigrants from the decennial congressional apportionment, according to an insp