Trump unveils a new scheme to seize more power

Systemic Error Podcast · Aug 22, 2026 · 4m

Trump Wants to Disappear People Without Deporting ThemCensus as ErasureThe reporting points to a simple move dressed up in bureaucratic language: the Trump administration has quietly filed a rule change that critics fear would recategorize millions of immigrants, including legal residents, as if they do not really live here. That matters because the census is not a trivia exercise. It is how the state counts people for funding, representation, and political power.This is not confusion. It is a second pass at the same project: first remove people, then remove the record that they were ever…