Tuesday, March 27, 2018

California suing to prevent 2020 Census from asking about citizenship

Kobach was one of the leading voices in the country for putting the citizenship question back on the Census, even writing Ross, himself, to request that the question be added to give the nation's citizens more transparency on how many noncitizens and illegal aliens are living throughout the country.

Until 1950, the Census asked about the citizenship of respondents, and the reasons for dropping the question are unclear to me at this point.

One consequence of the lack of Census data is that we have no idea of the actual population of illegal aliens, which seems an obvious need that the new question will help address.

California, with its large immigrant [sic] communities, would be disproportionately harmed by depressed participation in the 2020 census.

The Census] Bureau has been asking more detailed immigration-related questions for many years on a number of its largest and most important surveys.

With California suing in federal court in that state, a rogue judge there could easily rule in its favor, with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirming such a decision in time to block the question from the 2020 census.

Yesterday, commerce secretary Wilbur Ross announced that the 2020 Census would add a question about citizenship.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/03/california_suing_to_prevent_2020_census_from_asking_about_citizenship.html 

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