Census-rigging question about citizenship got the Steve Bannon touch, lawsuit docs show

Trump's one-time strategist and longtime white supremacy promoter helped push for the query.

ALAN PYKE JUN 10, 2018, 12:10 PM

Steve Bannon helped promote a right-wing campaign to include questions about immigration status in the 2020 census, documents unveiled in a lawsuit show.

The political strategist who helped stoke white resentment that fueled President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and in his role leading Breitbart.com also sought to flag proposed changes to the census to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s attention.

Bannon told Kansas Secretary of State and leading xenophobic wonk Kris Kobach to reach out to Ross about the issue, according to emails made public through the lawsuit. The documents also demonstrate a tidal wave of apolitical opposition to the question from sociologists and scholars.

Demographic and socioeconomic data gathered by the census is a key tool for academics across a wide range of fields, but it also directly shapes the US political map. Scientists and researchers fear that injecting legal status and citizenship questions would chill interactions between marginalized communities and census-takers, in the process distorting the political map.

https://thinkprogress.org/census-rigging-question-about-citizenship-got-the-steve-bannon-touch-lawsuit-docs-show-f736c79d186f/


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Undercounting by even one percent in Texas, for example, could cost the state $300 million in federal health care funding. A total of nearly $700 billion in federal spending is pegged to Census results.


Hey Bannon, Ross and Kobach....................Fuck you ...........


We are coming this November 2018....................