{"id":12588,"date":"2018-03-27T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/distorting-the-picture\/"},"modified":"2018-03-27T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T16:30:00","slug":"pagbaluktot-ng-larawan","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/articles\/distorting-the-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Pagbaluktot ng Larawan"},"template":"","class_list":["post-12588","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Plans to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 Census will skew the count in favor of Republicans and leave millions of people unrepresented in Congress,.statehouses, and city and county councils.","featured_image":4653,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8577}"],"related_issues":[103,138,169,2066],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Suppose the local electronics store sold you a big, new flat screen TV. \u00a0And then, when you got it home and turned it on, the picture was distorted \u2013 maybe the colors weren\u2019t right or the images were fuzzy or washed out.\r\n\r\nFirst, you\u2019d probably try to adjust the sharpness and the tint, but if none of that worked, you\u2019d box the thing back up and return it; you\u2019d tell the salesman that you paid for and deserve a sharp, true picture.\r\n\r\nWell Americans are about to purchase a picture of ourselves: the 2020 Census. And the Trump administration served notice late Monday that it intends to deliver a product it knows will depict us not as we are but as the administration would like us to be.\r\n\r\nCommerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced that Census forms will ask everyone to disclose their citizenship status, a request that in today\u2019s supercharged atmosphere over immigration enforcement is certain to provoke millions of people \u2013 citizens and non-citizens alike \u2013 to discard the form and go uncounted.\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s more than coincidental that most of those people live in urban centers whose voters typically prefer Democratic candidates. If those communities are undercounted, there likely will be fewer Democratic districts, and more Republican, in the House of Representatives, state legislatures and city and county councils across the country.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis is an attempt to racially rig the census and undercount communities of color, and goes against the fair representation our democracy relies on,\u201d said Common Cause President Karen Hobert Flynn.\r\n\r\nStatistics generated by the Census touch every corner of American life. In addition to being mandated by the Constitution, \u201can accurate Census is essential in the redrawing of our congressional and legislative districts and budgeting decisions that impact our schools, hospitals, roads, and veterans,\u201d Hobert Flynn observed. \u201cBy adding the citizenship question, the Trump administration is threatening the accuracy of data we use as nation to make essential decisions about our children\u2019s future.\u201d\r\n\r\nWhile Ross insists the administration wants a full, accurate count, the administration likely let slip its real motive for the question in an email sent last week by President Trump\u2019s reelection campaign to GOP fundraisers across the country. Ang Washington Post<\/a><\/strong> reports that the email declared that \u201cThe President wants the 2020 United States Census to ask people whether or not they are citizens. The President wants to know if you\u2019re on his side.\u201d The message included two answers for respondents to choose from: \u2018Absolutely! Is that even a question?\u2019 and \u2018No.\u2019\u201d\r\n\r\nKenneth Prewitt, a former Census Bureau director, suggested this morning that the citizenship question could cost California, the nation\u2019s most populous state, up to four seats in the House. Ang Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/strong> reports that up to 16 states are positioned to either lose or gain a congressional seat, depending on the census results\r\n\r\nThousands of immigrants, including students and green card holders who are in the U.S. legally, will see that question and \u201csay why should we do this?\u201d Prewitt said.\r\n\r\nWithin hours of Ross\u2019 announcement on Monday, California officials filed suit to challenge the administration\u2019s plan. And on Capitol Hill, Democrats are expected to intensify their push for legislation to overrule Ross\u2019 decision and remove the citizenship question from Census forms.\r\n\r\nThe administration\u2019s announced rationale for including the question, which has not been asked on Census forms since 1950, is that more information about citizenship will aid in enforcement of voting rights laws. Ross said Monday that the Justice Department asked that the question be added.\r\n\r\nBut census advocates say that citizenship questions that are included in the American Community Survey, an annual sampling intended to track population trends between the decennial Census, provide all the data needed for voting rights enforcement.\r\n

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