{"id":2428,"date":"2018-03-27T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/27\/census-citizenship-question-will-harm-aapi-communities\/"},"modified":"2018-03-27T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T17:03:00","slug":"census-citizenship-question-will-harm-aapi-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/census-citizenship-question-will-harm-aapi-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Census Citizenship Question Will Harm AAPI Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Following the U.S. Department of Commerce announcing it would be adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, DNC spokesperson Vedant Patel released the following statement: <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This latest ploy by Donald Trump and his administration is an attempt to silence the voices of millions of immigrants, including Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders &ndash; who are the fastest-growing immigrant group in the United States. By including this question, the Commerce Department is paving the way for a highly flawed and inaccurate census count that could jeopardize AAPI communities&rsquo; representation in Congress and the allocation of critical resources that many AAPI families &ndash; citizens and non-citizens alike &ndash; rely on. Democrats will fight this decision tooth and nail to ensure the census remains a fair and neutral means to count all U.S. residents and not a tool for Donald Trump to push his divisive agenda.&rdquo; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background: AAPI Immigrant Community In the United States <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Between 2000 &ndash; 2015 the U.S. AAPI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2017\/09\/08\/key-facts-about-asian-americans\/\">population<\/a> grew 72%\n<ul>\n<li>This is the fastest growth rate of any major racial or ethnic group<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AAPIs are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2017\/09\/08\/key-facts-about-asian-americans\/\">projected<\/a> to become the largest immigrant group in the country, surpassing Hispanics by 2055<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over the past decade, immigrants from AAPI countries have received more green cards than immigrants from any other region\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly 420,000 AAPIs obtained legal permanent <a href=\"http:\/\/aapidata.com\/blog\/trump-cuts-asian-families\/\">resident<\/a> status in 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of undocumented AAPIs has tripled since 2000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2015: Immigrants from Asian countries <a href=\"http:\/\/aapidata.com\/blog\/trump-cuts-asian-families\/\">received<\/a> 239,000 family-based visa (vs 90,000 employment-based visas)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2015, family-related visas <a href=\"http:\/\/aapidata.com\/blog\/trump-cuts-asian-families\/\">accounted<\/a> for the overwhelming majority of people obtaining permanent resident status from Vietnam (96%), Bangladesh (94%), Pakistan (83%), and the Philippines (81%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Even among Chinese and Indian immigrants, who have a generally received a significant number of employment-based visas, <a href=\"http:\/\/aapidata.com\/blog\/trump-cuts-asian-families\/\">more than half<\/a> of the green cards issued in 2015 to these groups were issued on the basis of family-related preferences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the U.S. Department of Commerce announcing it would be adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, DNC spokesperson Vedant Patel released the following statement: &nbsp; &ldquo;This latest ploy by Donald Trump and his administration is an attempt to silence the voices of millions of immigrants, including Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders &ndash; who <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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