/tags/citizenship citizenship en-US Copyright Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:08:42 GMT /2024-10-29/days-before-ohioans-vote-larose-sues-homeland-security-to-access-databases-to-check-citizenship In the midst of preparing for an election that’s a week away, Ohio’s Republican secretary of state is suing the US Department of Homeland Security to get access to databases he said will help Ohio find non-citizens who voted, which is illegal. Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:08:42 GMT /2024-10-29/days-before-ohioans-vote-larose-sues-homeland-security-to-access-databases-to-check-citizenship Karen Kasler /news-partners/2021-02-18/democrats-unveil-sweeping-immigration-bill The legislation includes setting up a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, but its fate in Congress, which has rejected such measures for the past two decades, is uncertain. Thu, 18 Feb 2021 17:17:36 GMT /news-partners/2021-02-18/democrats-unveil-sweeping-immigration-bill Barbara Sprunt, Claudia Grisales /news-partners/2021-01-22/biden-administration-tables-trumps-citizenship-data-request-for-redistricting Trump officials had directed the Census Bureau to use government records to produce data that a GOP strategist said would be "advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites" during redistricting. Fri, 22 Jan 2021 21:02:11 GMT /news-partners/2021-01-22/biden-administration-tables-trumps-citizenship-data-request-for-redistricting Hansi Lo Wang /news-partners/2021-01-20/biden-ends-trump-census-policy-ensuring-all-persons-living-in-u-s-are-counted President Biden has revoked Trump's policy of excluding unauthorized immigrants from a key count that the Constitution says must include the "whole number of persons in each state." Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:31:40 GMT /news-partners/2021-01-20/biden-ends-trump-census-policy-ensuring-all-persons-living-in-u-s-are-counted Hansi Lo Wang /news-partners/2021-01-20/what-did-biden-do-on-his-1st-day-as-president Biden signed 15 executive actions on priorities including COVID-19, climate change, racial justice — and a rollback of some Trump rules. Wed, 20 Jan 2021 10:00:56 GMT /news-partners/2021-01-20/what-did-biden-do-on-his-1st-day-as-president Franco Ordoñez, Ayesha Rascoe, Barbara Sprunt /news-partners/2021-01-20/on-immigration-biden-goes-big-in-opening-bid-to-congress Biden will send Congress a proposal that would protect millions of people from deportation, marking a dramatic turn from President Trump's hardline immigration tack. Wed, 20 Jan 2021 10:00:26 GMT /news-partners/2021-01-20/on-immigration-biden-goes-big-in-opening-bid-to-congress Franco Ordoñez /news-partners/2021-01-18/trumps-census-director-to-quit-after-trying-to-rush-out-indefensible-report After whistleblowers revealed Director Steven Dillingham was quietly pushing for a "statistically indefensible" report, calls have been growing for him to leave before his term expires at year's end. Mon, 18 Jan 2021 19:13:19 GMT /news-partners/2021-01-18/trumps-census-director-to-quit-after-trying-to-rush-out-indefensible-report Hansi Lo Wang /2021-01-13/census-bureau-stops-work-on-trumps-request-for-unauthorized-immigrant-count The Census Bureau has stopped trying to produce a count of unauthorized immigrants, ending the agency's role in Trump's bid to alter census numbers used for reallocating House seats, NPR has learned. Wed, 13 Jan 2021 14:18:00 GMT /2021-01-13/census-bureau-stops-work-on-trumps-request-for-unauthorized-immigrant-count Hansi Lo Wang /news-partners/2021-01-04/trumps-census-plan-in-peril-as-bureau-expects-february-release-of-count-results The Census Bureau has fallen further behind schedule in running quality checks on the 2020 census after uncovering more irregularities in the records, jeopardizing Trump's bid to alter a key count. Tue, 05 Jan 2021 02:04:21 GMT /news-partners/2021-01-04/trumps-census-plan-in-peril-as-bureau-expects-february-release-of-count-results Hansi Lo Wang /news-partners/2020-12-18/supreme-court-punts-census-case-giving-trump-an-iffy-chance-to-alter-numbers The opinion said the case was "riddled with contingencies and speculation" that impede judicial review. The president has sought to use a census count that does not include undocumented immigrants. Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:16:00 GMT /news-partners/2020-12-18/supreme-court-punts-census-case-giving-trump-an-iffy-chance-to-alter-numbers Nina Totenberg, Hansi Lo Wang