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April 11, 2019

Title: Only in America: Census Question Controversy
Topic: Census Citizenship Question

Discussed by Hans von Spakovsky
with The Heritage Foundation (www.Heritage.org)

Foreign observers must be shaking their heads in disbelief that adding a citizenship question to the U.S. census has proved so controversial as to result in litigation.

Hans von Spakovsky is the manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

Questions/Issues Discussed:

Why is a census important?

Why is there a nationwide census every 10 years?

Does the population of an area directly affect welfare programs offered by the government?

When did the United States first implement a citizen question on the national census? Is this a new idea?

Do other countries require a citizenship question on their census? Does the U.N. even recommend that member countries ask census questions identifying both an individual’s country of birth and country of citizenship?

Is there any evidence that households containing non-citizens are more likely not to respond at all to the required census completion?

What states are arguing in court against citizenship questions being included in the census form for 2020?

Who will determine whether or not a citizenship question will be included in the next census?

Will Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh side with the other conservative Supreme Court Justices?

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