Have you completed the census yet? Because today, Thursday, Oct. 15, is the final day you will be able to respond, following an unsigned order from the Supreme Court this week allowing the U.S. Census Bureau to end data collection early under a completely self-imposed deadline.
But despite the Trump administration’s sabotaging, we need to make sure we’re counted. Right now.
Completing the census takes just a couple minutes out of your day, and can be done online or over the phone, with representatives available in multiple languages. If you’ve already completed the census, guess what, you rock. Go another step and send this link to friends and family, and make sure they’re counted as well:
It’s been obvious why the U.S. Census Bureau has been rushing an end to data collection early, a leader with immigrant youth advocacy group United We Dream Action said in a statement received by Daily Kos.
“This move helps the Trump administration to follow through with plans to deliberately undercount communities of color,” advocacy director Sanaa Abrar said, “and ultimately exclude undocumented people from the final Census count it delivers to Congress for representation at all levels of government.”
“In her dissent,” Abrar continued, “Justice Sotomayor called an inaccurate Census count ‘avoidable,’ and ‘intolerable,’ pointing out that attempts to erase people from the Census are a deliberate way to erase immigrant communities.” Justice Sotomayor was the lone justice to publicly dissent and sign her name.
The administration’s sabotaging has always been clear as day to us, but we still need to fight back. Make your voice heard and be counted today.