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Opinion: Census citizenship question will hurt red states
Is adding a citizenship question to the 2020 US census a benign way to help the government obtain more robust data about a changing country, or is it discriminatory? The debate is picking up steam. Last month, a federal judge gave a green light to a lawsuit trying to block the question, on the grounds that it was intended to discriminate against immigrants. Looking at President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric and the sequence of events leading up to the question's insertion, the judge wrote that the claims of intentional discrimination by the administration went from "conceivable to plausible."
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