The decision comes after the Department of Justice requested in December that the 2020 census include the question to better enforce the Voting Rights Act. The decennial census has not asked about citizenship since 1950. Advocates worry that adding a question about citizenship to the census will only make people less likely to respond to the survey during a time of growing mistrust between President Donald Trump’s administration and minority communities. In a September memo, census field researchers reported that they were seeing unusually high concerns about confidentiality from respondents, particularly those in immigrant communities. Many people were falsifying the information they provided to researchers out of concern for their own immigration status or that of someone they knew.

Source: Huffington Post March 27, 2018 02:37 UTC