NEW: President Trump now faces 3 new federal lawsuits over his memo calling to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the population count that is used to redistribute congressional seats. A fourth suit may be coming from California's attorney general.
"It's another election-year tactic to fire up his base by dehumanizing immigrants and using them as scapegoats for his failures as a leader," said New York State Attorney General Letitia James in a written statement."No one ceases to be a person because they lack documentation, which is why we filed this lawsuit."
If unauthorized immigrants are left out of the apportionment count, California, Florida and Texas are each likely to end up with one less House seat, while Alabama, Minnesota and Ohio are each likely to hold onto a seat they would have otherwise lost after the 2020 census, according toConnecting the memo with the administration's failed attempt to add the now-blocked citizenship question to the 2020 census, the plaintiffs in Common Cause's lawsuit allege that all of the efforts...
as well as to block the administration from carrying it out and the clerk of the House from certifying an apportionment count delivered by the president that does not include people"on the basis of their citizenship or immigration status." Among the other plaintiffs in Common Cause's lawsuit are the cities of Atlanta and Paterson, N.J., a refugee advocacy organization based in San Diego called, and a group of individual U.S. citizens who live in New York and Florida — all of whom allege that because they are in areas with an"above-average number of undocumented immigrants," Trump's memo would hurt their rights to fair representation in Congress.
The Justice Department declined to comment on the lawsuits, DOJ spokesperson Brianna Herlihy said in an email. The White House did not respond on the record to NPR's request for comment. The Census Bureau and the Commerce Department, which oversees the bureau and is named as a defendant in the new cases, did not respond to NPR's inquiries.
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