1.The US Census Bureau announced on Monday night that the 2020 census will ask every American household to record which members of their family are US citizens.
2.The government’s justification for the question sounds simple enough: Asking about citizenship will provide more information about who is in the United States, and more information is always good. It claims it’s simply reinstating a question that’s been part of every census except 2010’s.
3.But the critics are skeptical that the Trump administration intends to use citizenship data for good reasons. The not-so-subtle implication, critics say, is that that it’s part of a broader project by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and company to take America back to the pre-civil rights era.
4. throwing off the count of who’s present in America that’s used to determine congressional apportionment for the next decade, allocate federal funding for infrastructure, and serve as the basis for huge amounts of American research.
5.Federal law strictly prohibits the Census Bureau from sharing information.
6.The Trump administration is correct in the technical sense: 2010 was the only year that no survey conducted as part of the US census asked about citizenship. But the critics are also correct: Citizenship hasn’t been a question on the mandatory census survey since 1950.
7.The DOJ’s reasoning, adopted by the Department of Commerce in its new memo, was that to appropriately enforce the Voting Rights Act, the DOJ needs to know where eligible voters, and specifically eligible voters of color, live — and so they have to be able to distinguish citizens from noncitizens.
8.Previous field tests had to be canceled because in 2016 and 2017, the Republican-controlled Congress wasn’t funding the Census Bureau at the levels it needed to conduct a full test.
9.cares a lot about the complete and utter fiction that large numbers of noncitizens are able to vote.
10.It’s bound by the requirement for enumeration: counting. What it gets is what it gets.
11.African Americans, particularly African-American men, have been undercounted in the past two censuses
12.because it takes years to conduct a census
2.The government’s justification for the question sounds simple enough: Asking about citizenship will provide more information about who is in the United States, and more information is always good. It claims it’s simply reinstating a question that’s been part of every census except 2010’s.
3.But the critics are skeptical that the Trump administration intends to use citizenship data for good reasons. The not-so-subtle implication, critics say, is that that it’s part of a broader project by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and company to take America back to the pre-civil rights era.
4. throwing off the count of who’s present in America that’s used to determine congressional apportionment for the next decade, allocate federal funding for infrastructure, and serve as the basis for huge amounts of American research.
5.Federal law strictly prohibits the Census Bureau from sharing information.
6.The Trump administration is correct in the technical sense: 2010 was the only year that no survey conducted as part of the US census asked about citizenship. But the critics are also correct: Citizenship hasn’t been a question on the mandatory census survey since 1950.
7.The DOJ’s reasoning, adopted by the Department of Commerce in its new memo, was that to appropriately enforce the Voting Rights Act, the DOJ needs to know where eligible voters, and specifically eligible voters of color, live — and so they have to be able to distinguish citizens from noncitizens.
8.Previous field tests had to be canceled because in 2016 and 2017, the Republican-controlled Congress wasn’t funding the Census Bureau at the levels it needed to conduct a full test.
9.cares a lot about the complete and utter fiction that large numbers of noncitizens are able to vote.
10.It’s bound by the requirement for enumeration: counting. What it gets is what it gets.
11.African Americans, particularly African-American men, have been undercounted in the past two censuses
12.because it takes years to conduct a census
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