Census Bureau Halting Efforts to Comply With Trump Citizenship Mandate

Census Bureau Halting Efforts to Comply With Trump Citizenship Mandate
The U.S. Census logo appears on census materials received in the mail with an invitation to fill out census information online in San Anselmo, Calif., on March 19, 2020. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
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Census Bureau workers were ordered this week to stop complying with President Donald Trump’s order to collect data on the immigration status of people living in the United States, the bureau’s director said.

Steven Dillingham, the director, said in a Jan. 13 memo that he’s informed officials at the agency “that those involved should ’stand down' and discontinue their data reviews.”
Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at [email protected]
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