Foreword
It has been 68 years since the U.S. Government asked about citizenship status in its decennial census — in a time when the constitutionally mandated count of the U.S. population was loaded with a hodgepodge of questions. In March 2018, however, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Trump Administration would return the question to the 2020 Census in order, he said, to help the Department of Justice enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1964. The move was greeted by an outcry from immigration activists and some State and local government officials, who said that asking about citizenship would…
