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Census halts efforts to comply with Trump citizenship order

by Mike Schneider
| January 13, 2021 3:15 PM

The director of the U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday indefinitely halted efforts to comply with President Donald Trump's order demanding data on who is in the country illegally after receiving blowback from civil rights groups and concerns raised by bureau statisticians about the accuracy of such figures.

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