{"id":136030,"date":"2018-04-03T23:55:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T05:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136030"},"modified":"2018-04-05T08:22:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T14:22:04","slug":"census-data-abused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/03\/census-data-abused.html","title":{"rendered":"When Census Data Was Abused"},"content":{"rendered":"

The inclusion of a “citizenship” question in the 2020 US Census has been highly contentious — but supporters note that census information could never, ever be used to identify individuals, and so any concern by resident aliens or even illegally present aliens — who are actually supposed to be counted by the federal census, according to the US Constitution — that responding to the census would be a dangerous thing to do are clearly overblown paranoia.<\/p>\n

Except that the US Census has<\/i> been used for nefarious purposes against individuals in the past — specifically, against Japanese-Americans at the outbreak of WW2.<\/p>\n

Does anyone actually doubt that Trump would push for a similar use of census data, and coerce Congress into passing legislation to allow such thing (assuming he didn’t just command it by fiat)?<\/p>\n


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\nSecret use of census info helped send Japanese Americans to internment camps in WWII – The Washington Post<\/a><\/span>
\nThe abuse of data from the 1940 census has fueled fears about a citizenship question on the 2020 census form.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The inclusion of a “citizenship” question in the 2020 US Census has been highly contentious — but supporters note that census information could never, ever be used to identify individuals, and so any concern by resident aliens or even illegally present aliens — who are actually supposed to be counted by the federal census, according … Continue reading “When Census Data Was Abused”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108,380,132,740],"tags":[1477,1206,1478],"class_list":["post-136030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history","category-nationalism-exceptionalism","category-privacy","category-race-racism","tag-census","tag-privacy","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/internment.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135399,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/21\/trump-administration-2020-census-go-wrong.html","url_meta":{"origin":136030,"position":0},"title":"The Trump Administration and the 2020 Census: What Could Go Wrong?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Nov-17 7:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because why worry because Donald Trump has named a Republican activist around gerrymandering, who's written a book about how \"Competitive Elections Are Bad for the United States,\" who has no federal statistical background, to be Deputy Director of the Census Bureau? 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