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July 3, 2019

In Defeat for Trump Admin, 2020 Census Will Not Include Citizenship Question
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The Trump administration has dropped its effort to include a citizenship
question in the 2020 census. Last week, the Supreme Court ruled the
question could not be added to next year's form, saying the
administration's justification for its inclusion "appears to have been
contrived." Trump had originally threatened to delay the
constitutionally mandated census after the ruling, but the Justice
Department confirmed Tuesday they gave the green light to start printing
the forms. The ACLU and 17 states filed a lawsuit to prevent the
citizenship question from being added. Census officials estimated 6.5
million people would not respond to the census, negatively impacting
areas with large immigrant communities.