Political Quotes

“On July 11, 2019, President Trump issued Executive Order 13880 after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision denying the citizenship question on the Census. The Executive Order would have directed all government departments, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to share any information regarding citizenship that they have with the Department of Commerce, which operates the Census Bureau. It was clear that this order was another attempt to deny the rights and privacy of undocumented immigrants, but we could not let the Administration deter anyone from participating in the decennial census. The census is critical for vital programs to receive federal funding, but more importantly census data is critical for proper political representation of our local community. That is why I introduced my bill, H.R. 7291, that would nullify the effect of Trump's Executive Order that requires Federal agencies to share citizenship data. The executive order directing federal agencies to compile citizenship data through administrative records and merge it with decennial census data is a blatant effort to collect this information for political and discriminatory purposes. Recently, on July 21, 2020, President Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum to exclude undocumented immigrants from being counted in reapportionment for Congress.…”