The following commentary by Eleanor Clift was posted on the Daily Beast website February 16, 2018:
The question seems intended to ensure that immigrants and minorities are further undercounted, hurting blue states and urban areas.
The Constitution requires that every person—not citizen—living in the United States must be counted every 10 years. Now, a Justice Department request to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census has put the once-in-a-decade count of the American people into the crosshairs of partisan politics.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose department includes the Census Bureau, has until April 1—the deadline to submit questions for the upcoming census—to decide whether to bow to the apparent political pressure. Continue reading “Citizenship Question Would Convert Census Into a GOP Voter Suppression Tool”