Debates over the census are usually reserved for demographers and statisticians, but the dispute over the citizenship question is one of high politics.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced last year that he had decided to add a citizenship question on the census for all households for the first time since 1950.
with large numbers of immigrants fear that millions of households will refuse to fill out the census forms if the citizen question is included out of concern that the confidential information will be shared with immigration agencies. The seats in the House of Representatives and in state legislatures are allocated based on census data. And the Constitution says “representatives shall be apportioned … counting the whole number of persons in each state.” This has been understood to mean that all residents are counted, regardless of whether they are citizens.
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