Ethnic minority organizations are vowing to do everything possible to encourage an accurate census count in the face of what they called a Trump Administration plan to solidify conservative Republican power with a distorted tally.
“The 2020 Census is one of the most urgent civil rights issues facing America,” said moderator Beth Lynk of the Leadership Conference Education Fund in opening an Ethnic Media Services press conference by telephone that featured speakers for five organizations.
Regardless of whether the Administration’s proposed citizenship question is added to the U.S. Census questionnaire – a Supreme Court decision is pending – the next decennial census is likely to undercount minorities as well as overcount whites, panelists agreed.