Trump Census Citizenship Question Could Cost Texas Billions of Dollars
Style Magazine Newswire | 3/30/2018, 8:06 a.m.
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Texas could lose representation in Congress and billions of federal dollars because of a Trump administration decision to add a question about citizenship status to the U.S. census in 2020. The change, instated by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, would bring back a question last seen in the 1950s. Ross claims the citizenship question will be used to increase data and prevent voter discrimination. But detractors argue the shift is intended to scare immigrants and prevent them from participating, and it's the voters in Texas who could be among the hardest hit. Once the new federal survey lands, Texas, a state that already exceeds the national average for low census response scores, could face new obstacles in accurately representing its population, a figure that determines Congressional representation and federal funding.
