Kelly Percival, Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, talks with Jan Miyasaki about her recent article: “Documents Reveal Trump Administration’s ‘Unprecedented’ Attempts to Influence 2020 Census“. At every level of the process, Percival says, Trump attempted to remove undocumented individuals from being counted, including adding “citizenship” to the Census questionnaire, using calculations to estimate and remove undocumented people, but was fortunately thwarted by career officials in the Census Department.

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