Jamie Raskin said "This assertion seems like a thinly veiled pretext to exclude immigrants and racial minorities from being counted, literally and figuratively." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJune 7, 2018

This assertion seems like a thinly veiled pretext to exclude immigrants and racial minorities from being counted, literally and figuratively.

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Democratic · Maryland

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Critiquing the administration's justification for adding a citizenship question.

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