On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments pertaining to the 2020 census, of which is required by the Constitution to be sent out to all those living in America. A proposed plan by the Trump administration is said to have questions on the 2020 census that pertains to the citizenship status of the recipients and people in each household. The administration's argument is that the question is necessary to better comply with federal voting rights laws. In January, earlier this year, a federal court judge barred the Trump administration from asking such questions with such arguments that it would make people less likely to answer or be honest. It is important that citizens answer the questions since the U.S. uses the census as a basis for funding and allocating congressional seats based on population. If these citizenship questions would be approved, this would be the first time since 1950 that such type questions were on a census. After hearing the arguments for each side, the Supreme Court is expected to release their decisions by late June of this year.
Do you think that citizenships questions should be on the 2020 census?
Is the Trump administration’s reasoning valid enough?
Do you think that people would be less likely to answer the census?
I do think that the citizenship question should be on the 2020 census. I feel that since our nation has evolved so much, they do have a valid reasoning. I feel like they will get the same responses as they usually do when they do it.
ReplyDeleteI think that the citizenship questions are perfectly fine to be on the 2020 census; surely no one would suggest that asking about citizenship on the census would be in any way offensive or particularly bad, and given the increasing problem of illegal immigration that still isn't getting solved, I think it only makes sense to at least try to monitor the extent of the issue through the census. After all, the government does have an incentive to find out how many people are breaking the law of the country. Thus, I think these questions have no major problem and are reasonable.
ReplyDeleteWill it encourage people to lie? Only if they're here illegally, which is in and of itself a crime, of course. Is that a reason to keep the questions off of the census? I don't see any reason why. The lying wouldn't be Trump's fault--it'd be the fault of liars.
And would people be less likely to answer the census? Maybe, though I bet the only reason that would actually happen to any significant extent would be just to protest Trump, which, again, is not in any way the Trump administration's fault. Figuratively speaking, the blood would only be on their hands, not Trump's, and I still think that trying to spite the president is not a valid argument to keep the citizenship questions off of the census.
I think they should be added to the census. However, the issue that I see here would be people lying about their citizenship status. If they are here illegally, they aren’t going to rat themselves out on a census.
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