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13 Jan, 4 tweets, 5 min read
NEW: Leading census advocates are calling for Census Bureau Dir. Steven Dillingham, a Trump appointee, to immediately resign for prioritizing "unconstitutional & premature production" of a data report on noncitizens. From @ArturoNALEO, @johncyangdc & @Wade4Justice @civilrightsorg “In light of the letter fro...
@ArturoNALEO @johncyangdc @Wade4Justice @civilrightsorg 2. "Dillingham’s order to divert precious staff time away from producing the apportionment count & into producing data on citizens & noncitizens for political, partisan purposes is a betrayal of the mission of the Bureau," they say.

More on that report:
npr.org/2021/01/12/956…
@ArturoNALEO @johncyangdc @Wade4Justice @civilrightsorg 3. By the way, I'm still waiting for the @uscensusbureau to respond to my questions about why Director Steven Dillingham has pressured career civil servants to make this data report on noncitizens a top priority.
@ArturoNALEO @johncyangdc @Wade4Justice @civilrightsorg @uscensusbureau 4. *"a number one priority," according to this memo by @CommerceOIG Peggy Gustafson:
oig.doc.gov/OIGPublication…

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NEW: Calls for the resignation of the Census Bureau's Trump-appointed director — Steven Dillingham, whose term ends on Dec. 31 — are now coming from Democrats in Congress. including @RepJudyChu, Rep. @GerryConnolly (L) and @SenatorShaheen (R) (H/T @ZachMontellaro & @lbarronlopez) “Even in the waning days of...“The Trump administration w...
@RepJudyChu @GerryConnolly @SenatorShaheen @ZachMontellaro @lbarronlopez 2. Some civil rights group leaders also called for the bureau director's resignation this week after @CommerceOIG revealed Dillingham tried to rush out a data report on noncitizens that a career official said would be "statistically indefensible"
@RepJudyChu @GerryConnolly @SenatorShaheen @ZachMontellaro @lbarronlopez @CommerceOIG 3. "Officials like Steven Dillingham who cannot put the needs of the nation over the demands of a twice impeached President should resign," says @RepJudyChu (D-Calif.), chair of @CAPAC "The Trump Administrat...
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13 Jan
NEW: Trump's Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham tells @CommerceOIG that he has directed career employees to "stand down" and stop trying to produce a technical data report about noncitizens after whistleblowers raised concerns about data inaccuracy
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@CommerceOIG 2. Dillingham's memo replying to Commerce Dept Inspector General Peggy Gustafson provides the Census Bureau director's account of why he said the technical data report on noncitizens should be a "number one priority." My earlier reporting for background:
npr.org/2021/01/12/956…
@CommerceOIG 3. Before Trump put out the July 2020 memo calling for unauthorized immigrants to be omitted from apportionment counts, he put out this July 2019 executive order about using government records to produce data after losing the citizenship-question battle
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13 Jan
EXCLUSIVE: The Census Bureau has stopped trying to produce a count of unauthorized immigrants that President Trump requested to alter the census numbers used for reallocating congressional seats & Electoral College votes among the states, @NPR has learned
npr.org/2021/01/13/956…
@NPR 2. Senior career officials at the bureau instructed the internal team assigned to carry out Trump's presidential memo to cease their work immediately on Tuesday night, according to a bureau employee who spoke to @NPR on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.
@NPR 3. The move by civil servants effectively ends the bureau's participation in Trump's bid to make an unprecedented change to who is counted in the 2020 census apportionment counts, which according to the 14th Amendment, must include the "whole number of persons in each state."
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13 Jan
Whistleblowers at the Census Bureau told the @CommerceOIG that Director Steven Dillingham, a Trump appointee, is trying to rush out a data report about noncitizens that would be "statistically indefensible" and could "tarnish" the bureau's reputation.
npr.org/2021/01/12/956…
@CommerceOIG 2. It's been three hours since @CommerceOIG released its memo that revealed Dillingham's directive to make producing a data report on noncitizens a "number one priority," and the @uscensusbureau's public information office has not yet responded to my questions.
@CommerceOIG @uscensusbureau 3. My earlier thread breaking down the @CommerceOIG memo:
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12 Jan
BREAKING: Census Bureau's watchdog @CommerceOIG says whistleblowers reported that the bureau's director, a Trump appointee, wants a data report about noncitizens, including unauthorized immigrants, produced by Jan. 15, calling it "a number one priority"
oig.doc.gov/OIGPublication…
@CommerceOIG 2. @CommerceOIG says Census Bureau's career officials are concerned "incomplete data could be misinterpreted, misused, or otherwise tarnish" bureau’s reputation." Whistleblowers told OIG they haven't had "sufficient time" to run quality checks and aren't sure about data accuracy.
@CommerceOIG 3. @CommerceOIG says Jan. 15 deadline allegedly set by Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham "may no longer be in effect." OIG says Dillingham "inquired into a financial reward for speed on this directive."

I've reached out to Census Bureau's public info office for comment.
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