Experts fear the recent US Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to end census data collection early could have dire ramifications for New Jersey and its high number of immigrants, who comprise hard-to-count communities that depend on federal funding allocated in accordance with population numbers.
“The highways in Hudson County, New Jersey, are traversed far more than a rural road in Kentucky,” said McCarter & English LLP partner Guillermo C. Artiles, chair of the firm’s government affairs practice, about the need for federal funding.
A native of immigrant-heavy Union City, New Jersey, Artiles noted the suspicion and fear foreign-born residents have for the government, and called the shortening of the census data collection period “shameful.”