NEW: Courts permanently blocked #2020Census from asking about U.S. citizenship status, but @OversightDems say they've obtained worker script for count of people experiencing homelessness that says citizenship is part of "census response data...we ask for"
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@OversightDems 2. I've reached out to @uscensusbureau's public information office to ask why "citizenship" is on page 9 of this copy of the "Group Quarters Advance Contact In-field Script for Emergency and Transitional Shelters (with Sleeping Facilities) for People Experiencing Homelessness."
@OversightDems @uscensusbureau 3. In a letter to Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham, @RepMaloney says House @OversightDems obtained this #2020Census worker script from a whistleblower, as well as another document about the count of people experiencing homelessness.
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@OversightDems @uscensusbureau @RepMaloney 4. The other document House @OversightDems obtained is dated Sept. 3 and titled "Operational Update for SBE" (which stands for service-based enumeration, or the count of people experiencing homelessness):
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@OversightDems @uscensusbureau @RepMaloney 5. UPDATE: Census Bureau says the mention of "citizenship" as part of "census response data...we ask for" in #2020Census worker script that @OversightDems obtained was an "error" bureau identified in February and then "immediately removed from circulation"
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@OversightDems @uscensusbureau @RepMaloney 6. In February, Census Bureau HQ did "an immediate review" of all #2020Census materials to make sure all had been updated to remove references to the now-blocked citizenship question after the SCOTUS decision in 2019, Director Steven Dillingham says in a letter to @RepMaloney.
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