Whatever it was, there's some totally crazy stuff over there that they pass off as rational government - then, there's the hypocrisy of it all. The government tells this story about the census to the effect that you can't tell someone's race by looking at the numbers and categories.
Even a child can identify "race" in that census - it's all in the categories if you know how to read them.
You guys better escape soon, because we are going to be shutting down that European immigration door pretty soon lest we start getting some of your tainted ones over here!