Draft Rule Proposes Excluding Undocumented Immigrants and Dropping Race, Orientation from Census

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A draft federal rule, reviewed by WIRED, proposes barring undocumented immigrants from being counted in the US Census. The proposal would also eliminate questions related to race and sexual orientation from the survey. Officials behind the draft cited the need to protect against what they described as statistical "distortions." If adopted, the changes would mark a significant shift in how the Census Bureau collects demographic data about the American population.

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