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Why would the census count citizens? We already know how many citizens we got, every US citizen has documentation on their existence. If you don't exist on pape
by AngryData 7y ago
Why would the census count citizens? We already know how many citizens we got, every US citizen has documentation on their existence. If you don't exist on paper already, you aren't a citizen as far as the US government is concerned. The census is for one thing, counting the number of people actually living in each area and the very basics of what conditions they live in. Being a citizen doesn't change whether you exist or not.
- tomatocracy 7y agoI’m not American so I may be wrong on this, but my understanding of US law regarding birthright citizenship is that if you’re born in the US, regardless of your parents immigration or citizenship status, you’re considered a citizen. From this it would follow that the US citizen children of undocumented immigrants may well not have documentation of that fact.
- sokoloff 7y agoIf you wanted to know where the citizen children of a divorced and living in 2 states couple lived, how would you do that in a way that tied out for census purposes without doing a census? For retired people with houses in more than one state?