Weekly Perspective

(Photo illustration by Bill Kuchman/ The Bulwark | Photos: Shutterstock) A VAGUELY OMINOUS BUT LITTLE-NOTICED regulatory filing issued in late June could have a profound impact on business, immigrants, and the balance of power in our country. The filing was a notification that the Trump administration had drafted new rules governing the decennial census . The actual specifics of those new rules remain scant. But from conversations I’ve been having with people close to the process, it is widely expected that the administration will try to recategorize millions of immigrants (both unauthorized and legal) as not actually living here in the United States. Why would they do that? For several reasons. The first is a longstanding animus that the president and his top aides have to the immigrant population. The administration has unleashed unprecedented border crackdowns and interior enforcement measures in the service of a vast project of mass deportation. Through the census, it can continue...