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On the recordMarch 5, 2019
Giving growing anti-immigrant sentiment and xenophobia, Wilbur Ross proposed that we add an immigration-status question.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley highlights concerns over the addition of an immigration-status question to the census.

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