Poll: A quarter of Americans don't trust Census on citizenship
NEW YORK - The Trump administration has repeatedly assured Americans that it will not use data from a proposed citizenship question on the 2020 Census to target undocumented immigrants. But more than a quarter of Americans don't believe it, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Twenty-six percent of Americans believe the government wants to insert the question about citizenship to"help enforce U.S. immigration laws and detain illegal immigrants." Eight percent believe it is designed to result in an undercount in immigrant communities, according to the poll of more than 2,000 people conducted April 30-May 2.
The Commerce Department declined to comment on the poll, but said that"Census responses are safe, secure and protected by federal law."Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced in March 2018 that he planned to include the citizenship question to help the Justice Department enforce the Voting Rights Act. It would be the first time the question appears on the survey in 70 years.
Legal experts say confidentiality laws clearly prevent any such sharing of Census information on individuals with outside parties, including law enforcement agencies, and any employee who does so could be subject to a fine of as much as $250,000 and up to 5 years in prison. The author was a prison inmate, which minimized their concerns, but it would have been illegal to share the information in any case, he added.The Census Bureau's chief scientist, John Abowd, has predicted the inclusion of the question would likely reduce response rates by more than the typical amount. It would also significantly boost the cost of the survey because Census workers will hard to spend more time trying to get people to respond, he has said.
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