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If the census can ask any questions at all other than “how many people are in your household,” then certainly a question of citizenship is relevant. Many, many

If the census can ask any questions at all other than “how many people are in your household,” then certainly a question of citizenship is relevant. Many, many countries include citizenship in their census, it’s not at all unreasonable. Citizenship is far more relevant than race. France for example, forbids asking race and ethnicity however they do, in fact, ask about citizenship. Why wouldn’t we want to know the citizenship of the people living in the country? It seems like very useful data.

siedes 8y ago
>"Why wouldn’t we want to know the citizenship of the people living in the country? " I think he told us that answer already. His politics benefits from noncitizens being counted in the census, so it would be problematic if such a question were to scare away any illegal immigrants living in the U.S (this is because no permanent legal resident is scared of citizenship questions, since it's usually clarified if something is okay for a legal resident noncitizen or not).