hi this is Kaushik Ranchod here
today
we have some really important news you
want to stay tuned. What is the latest
thing that Trump is trying to do
to get rid of immigration. How is he
trying to attack it?
You'll want to stay tuned to watch this
because we're going to talk about the
latest tactics that he's using to
undermine immigration.
So we're also going to talk about how a
recent
lawsuit prevailed in an immigration ban
that he
tried to create. So stay tuned
All right so let's talk about what
he's trying to do
it's the census 2020 and that's what
the latest tool he's trying to use to
help undermine immigrants. In july
of 2020 what he did is he filed a
memorandum created a memorandum
basically finding that
undocumented immigrants shouldn't be
counted
in the census. Can you believe it? This is
of course very disheartening
and we're going to talk about why this
is
not constitutional. All right let's
let's get into it. So july yes he filed
this and basically what his arguments
are
are that, because foreign diplomats
haven't been counted because visitors
haven't been counted he used that
to piggyback his argument that
undocumented immigrants shouldn't be
counted.
Now why does he want to do this why does
he care about the census? Well
there's a very good reason because this
shifts the power
this makes a difference in apportioning
the house of representatives
and who should be counted in the
in determining and evaluating the total
electoral college
specifically to the house of
representatives. This could make a
difference
in who is counted who
is elected with the house of
representatives who's representing
people in specific states. So
let's get into the details uh of exactly
what this
means but by basically reporting
not counting undocumented immigrants it
means
that perhaps a republican would be
elected
instead of a democrat. So this could also
affect the 2024
and the 2028 presidential elections
depending upon
whether or not if you're documented if
you get it
counted in the census. So that's why you
got to take action if you've
received something from the census
bureau respond it's really important
because
you do have power by responding and this
is being challenged what we're going to
talk about in this video as well
this could be considered
unconstitutional because the president
should not be able to
arbitrarily and capriciously make a
decision
and additionally the government needs to
conduct an actual enumeration of all
people living in the united states
whether or not yes whether or not they
are citizens. And that's really what's
coming into play here
is if you are a citizen or not
should you be counted and then we got to
look into the history of whether what's
happened in the past
and why or why not should someone be
counted. So if this went to effect
several million people when determining
how to apportion the 435
house seats could be
affected and this would affect the 2022
midterm elections. So before i talked
about the presidential elections but
this also
more importantly immediately affects
the midterm elections.
So it basically would shift seats that
could be democrat leaning to
republican leaning. So let's talk about
specifically what we're talking about
here with what states would be affected
well
Texas New York California could lose
seats
while other states such as Alabama and
Minnesota could gain seats. So you can see it has a
real powerful impact and
that's why the president is trying to do
this. This memorandum now
has been challenged in federal court
three lawsuits have been filed yes three
lawsuits have been
filed and this is the power of
our judicial system to make sure that
these checks and balances are put into
play
that we're not a dictatorship system
that the president
just can't make law that
it can be challenged. And these lawsuits
i'm going to talk about a lawsuit that
was
that did prevail at the end of this
video too when trump tried to put in a
specific
immigration ban. So three lawsuits have
been filed
the first one was by government watchdog
group in july
23rd and july 24th
a New York state led coalition of
20 states plus local many local
governments
also enjoined with that to file a
lawsuit based on
constitutional grounds this was based
off of the administrative procedures act
basically finally finding that
this was arbitrary capricious. Trump
has lost on this ground before
this is also what happened with
previous lawsuits where he was found to
make arbitrary and capricious decisions
where the administration was found.
There's a possibility that
these lawsuits could prevail now
there's also a third lawsuit that was
filed by the ACLU
and they call trump's plan
unconstitutional
because everyone must be counted
regardless of their legal status.
Now why? Because they said that since 1860
since
slavery has been abolished
that the constitution must count
whole persons. So just because you're
undocumented does not mean you're a half
a person
you have obviously are a whole person
and you must be counted
and this is what the ACLU alleged. Also there's also been a further
amendment to lawsuit to the complaint by
MALDEF the mexican american legal
defense and educational fund. Basically they're saying that it's
constitutionally mandated that
enumeration of all persons living in the
United States
for purposes of portioning seats in the
house of representatives.
So you are a whole person and that
you can see has been alleged in these
lawsuits
for the purposes of the census you
should be
absolutely counted. We will continue to
monitor this
and what's happening this is a changing
day by day
and i also want to give you the latest
update too on where a lawsuit
that prevailed with a ban that
Trump tried to put in place. Now what
happened here was
you may remember that trump tried to
force students
to go back because of Covid using Covid
as a pretext and you also noticed that
he's using Covid
as a pretext for a lot of his
immigration decisions. So
he was trying to get students to go back
having a basically a foreign student ban
Harvard MIT boom um just basically just
filed a lawsuit and basically what
happened
is that whole ban that he was trying
that the administration was trying to
put in place no longer
went into effect so these lawsuits are
effective
they do make a difference it shows the
power of
the constitution the power of the us
government
and why this country is so great and why
was created the first place to prevent
a dictatorship type of situation.
So i want to thank you for being amazing
and watching this video
and continue to stay tuned because we're
going to keep you updated
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