NSC in the News: Reassuring Words For Immigrants About The Census (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Reassuring words for immigrants about the census
By Michael Matza
Inquirer Staff Writer
The last time 38-year-old Chandra Gurung was counted in a national census was in Bhutan in 1991, and it led to the expulsion of more than 105,000 Bhutanese of Nepali descent.
Authorities “wanted to know if your parents and grandparents were born in Bhutan,” she recalled. “If they weren’t, you were forced to leave.”
