Census Bureau quietly seeking immigrants' legal status: report

The Census Bureau is quietly seeking information on millions of immigrants’ legal status, The Associated Press reported. According to the news service, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would give the Census Bureau extensive personal data about immigrants under a pending agreement.The DHS data would include names, addresses, birth dates and places, Social Security numbers and sensitive alien registration numbers, the AP added, citing a document it obtained.The news service said the DHS data would be more precise than the information collected by the bureau in its household canvassing every 10 years.