Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/author/michelle-mbekeani-wiley/)
Michelle Mbekeani-Wiley is the community justice staff attorney at Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law.
In a move that would cause an under-count of immigrant communities, the Trump administration is building on a long history of using the census to undermine and obscure people of color.
Many of the state’s 4 million people with past felony convictions may be unaware that they have a right to vote after prison, while on probation or parole, or even while awaiting trial in jail.