The Trump administration could be adding a question about US citizenship to the census form in 2020 — TheStephSy discusses the potential impacts of this decision in today's The 360
Speed readWhat's happening: The Founding Fathers laid out in the Constitution what seems like a straightforward task: Every 10 years, the government must count the number of people living in the United States for a national census. How to conduct that task, however, has been a source of intense debate since the beginning.
Although it may seem like a boring bureaucratic issue, the census is extremely important. Its count dictates representation in state and federal governments, how much federal funding each state gets and how legislative districts are drawn. The census counts the total number of residents living in a given area, both citizens and noncitizens.
Asking about citizenship, they argue, is a deliberate attempt to disadvantage Latinos and Democrats. They say people in immigrant communities might refuse to participate out of fear that the information will be used to target them or people they know for deportation. This would lead to an undercount of the population in mostly Democratic-leaning parts of the country. As a result, those areas would get fewer elected representatives and federal funding.
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