Latino Voters Move To Defend Census Immigrant Count In Lawsuit By Alabama
The Trump administration has not yet responded to a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Census Bureau's policy of including unauthorized immigrants in population numbers used to distribute seats in Congress.
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is asking a federal judge in Alabama to allow a group of Latino voters and the advocacy group Chicanos Por La Causa to defend a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Census Bureau's policy of including unauthorized immigrants in census numbers used to redistribute seats in Congress.
Once a decade, the bureau counts every person living in the U.S. — regardless of immigration status — for the census required by the Constitution. After the Civil War, the 14th Amendment was ratified to
