{"id":22211,"date":"2019-11-15T14:44:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T19:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22211"},"modified":"2020-02-21T06:33:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T11:33:12","slug":"census-citizenship-question-illegals-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/11\/15\/census-citizenship-question-illegals-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears That Citizenship Question Would Lower Response Rates Fizzle Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the primary arguments made by those opposed to including a citizenship question on the 2020 census was that doing so would deter Hispanics, Asian-Americans, and other immigrants from participating. Preliminary results<\/a> from the 2019 Census Test conducted this summer actually show it would have little impact on response rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe major finding of the test was that there was no\ndifference in self-response rates between forms with and forms without a\ncitizenship question,\u201d said Dr. Victoria A. Velkoff, the Bureau\u2019s associate\ndirector of Demographic Programs, in an Oct. 31 blog post explaining the\nfindings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSelf-response rates from this test were similar to\nother mid-decade tests, including the 2018 Census Test conducted in Providence\nCounty, RI, which had a 52.3 percent self-response rate,\u201d she continued. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the households that received the questionnaire without the citizenship question, the response rate was 52 percent, while the response rate for those asked about citizenship, it was 51.5 percent, which falls within the standard statistical error range. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross\u2019 March 2018 announcement that a question about citizenship status would again be included on the decennial census questionnaire was met with fearful rhetoric and lawsuits<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a brazen attempt by the Trump administration to cheat on the census, to undermine the accuracy of the census and to attack states that have large immigrant populations \u2014 states, most of which just happen to be Democratic states,\u201d said<\/a> Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) at an April 2018 press conference announcing the first lawsuit challenging the question\u2019s inclusion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York\u2019s Democratic Attorney General Letitia James predicted<\/a> in April 2019 that \u201cthis question would incite widespread fear in immigrant communities and greatly impair the\u00a0accuracy of the Census.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After numerous lawsuits and lower court rulings, the Supreme Court heard arguments and issued a decision in June 2019<\/a> agreeing that the question itself is constitutional, but the pretext for adding it offered by Ross was not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Census Bureau moved ahead in June \u00a0with plans to ask almost 480,000 households in the U.S. to fill out test questionnaires\u00a0 \u2013 some with and some without a question about citizenship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The randomized test measured the impact of the\ninclusion of a citizenship question on self-response rates for the purposes of\nallowing the Census Bureau improve its plans for performing follow-ups with\nnonresponding households and public communications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July, President Trump announced he was abandoning efforts<\/a> to get the question included by other regulatory means, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report found no difference between forms with and\nwithout a citizenship question for internet and telephone self-response rates.\nWith regard to those mail responses, the response rate for forms without the\ncitizenship question were an insignificant 0.3 percent higher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The results likely will not be enough to convince opponents. Responding to the results, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which filed suit against the Commerce Department, asserted<\/a> that \u201cThere\u2019s not enough information in today\u2019s blog post to understand what precisely it means.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somehow, it is hard to believe there will ever be\n\u201cenough information\u201d to satisfy activist critics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the primary arguments made by those opposed to including a citizenship question on the 2020 census was that doing so would deter Hispanics, Asian-Americans, and other immigrants from participating. Preliminary results from the 2019 Census Test conducted this summer actually show it would have little impact on response rates. \u201cThe major finding of<\/p>\n

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