Pascrell Celebrates Fair Census

PATERSON, NJ – U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today reacted to reports that the Trump administration will begin printing copies of the 2020 Census without a citizenship question. The action follows the Supreme Court’s decision in Department of Commerce v. City of New York blocking the inclusion of the question.

“A fair Census benefits a rich, diverse nation. It helps us grow and meet our full potential as a civilization striving always forward,” stated Rep. Pascrell. “A citizenship question would have pushed us backward for nothing more than crass political calculations. When we have a full accounting of our populace, America wins. Today America won and Donald Trump and his political minions lost. Amen.”

Just today, Rep. Pascrell joined seventeen of his colleagues in a letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross calling for printing of the 2020 Census without a citizenship question to begin immediately. Representing one of the most vibrantly diverse districts in the nation, Pascrell has been one of the leaders in Congress sounding the alarm on the negative impacts of Trump’s attack on the Census. In an April 22 op-ed, Pascrell warned that Trump’s politicization of the Census through the inclusion of a citizenship question would pose “devastating” consequences for America and “risk[] the undercounting of minority-rich, immigrant-driven communities across America” and especially in “diverse states like New Jersey.”

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