Asking about citizenship on the census should be uncontroversial
By Marc Thiessen |
PUBLISHED: April 1, 2018 at 8:30 pm | UPDATED: April 2, 2018 at 12:20 pm
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is being sued over its plans to include a question about citizenship in the 2020 Census, which California Attorney General Xavier Becerra says “is not just a bad idea — it is illegal.â€
No, it’s not. There is nothing wrong with asking about citizenship. Canada asks a citizenship question on its census. So do Australia and many other U.S. allies. The U.S. government asked about citizenship for 130 years — from 1820 to 1950 — as part of the decennial “short form†census and continued to do so in the “long form†survey — distributed to 1 in 6 people — through 2000, when the long form was replaced by the annual American Community Survey. The ACS goes to about 2.6 percent of the population each year and asks about citizenship to this day.
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/04/01/asking-about-citizenship-on-the-census-should-be-uncontroversial/
