{"id":1404712,"date":"2026-02-05T18:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenewsherald.com\/?p=1404712&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=1404712"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:36:00","slug":"census-citizenship-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thenewsherald.com\/2026\/02\/05\/census-citizenship-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Census Bureau plans to use survey with a citizenship question in its test for 2030, alarming experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By MIKE SCHNEIDER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/us-census-bureau\">Census Bureau<\/a> plans to use a survey form with a citizenship question as part of its <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2030-census-testing-alabama-south-carolina-tribes-66a503326817203f6ff3cc762ac2def8\">practice test<\/a> of the 2030 census, raising questions about whether the Trump administration might try to make a significant change to the once-a-decade headcount that <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/immigration-us-supreme-court-courts-supreme-courts-ap-top-news-9193a30c38c345a88997020b6b958d9f\">failed<\/a> during the president\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related left\"><h2 class=\"widget-title\" data-curated-ids=\"\" data-relation-type=\"automatic-primary-section\">Related Articles<\/h2><ul><li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewsherald.com\/2026\/02\/08\/housing-costs-are-crippling-many-americans-heres-how-the-two-parties-propose-to-fix-that\/\" title=\"Housing costs are crippling many Americans. Here\u2019s how the two parties propose to fix that\">\n\t\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\">\n\t\t\tHousing costs are crippling many Americans. Here\u2019s how the two parties propose to fix that\t\t<\/span>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\n\t\n<\/li><li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewsherald.com\/2026\/02\/07\/vaccine-court-overhaul\/\" title=\"Her son\u2019s injury never got its day in vaccine court. Their lawyer is now advising RFK Jr. on its overhaul\">\n\t\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\">\n\t\t\tHer son\u2019s injury never got its day in vaccine court. Their lawyer is now advising RFK Jr. on its overhaul\t\t<\/span>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\n\t\n<\/li><li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewsherald.com\/2026\/02\/06\/border-family-separation\/\" title=\"Judge orders Trump administration to bring back 3 families deported to Honduras, other countries\">\n\t\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\">\n\t\t\tJudge orders Trump administration to bring back 3 families deported to Honduras, other countries\t\t<\/span>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\n\t\n<\/li><li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewsherald.com\/2026\/02\/06\/epstein-house-unredacted-files\/\" title=\"Justice Department will allow lawmakers to see unredacted versions of released Epstein files\">\n\t\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\">\n\t\t\tJustice Department will allow lawmakers to see unredacted versions of released Epstein files\t\t<\/span>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\n\t\n<\/li><li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewsherald.com\/2026\/02\/06\/us-social-service-funds\/\" title=\"Feds can\u2019t withhold social service funds from 5 Democratic states amid fraud claims, judge rules\">\n\t\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\">\n\t\t\tFeds can\u2019t withhold social service funds from 5 Democratic states amid fraud claims, judge rules\t\t<\/span>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\n\t\n<\/li><\/ul><\/aside>\n<p>The field test being conducted in Huntsville, Alabama, and Spartanburg, South Carolina, is using questions from the American Community Survey, the comprehensive survey of American life, rather than questions from recent census forms.<\/p>\n<p>Among the questions on the ACS is one that asks, \u201cIs this person a citizen of the United States?\u201d Questions for the census aren\u2019t supposed to ask about citizenship, and they haven\u2019t for 75 years.<\/p>\n<p>Last August, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-census-immigration-illegal-165fe1c52cfc930521bc7e65d4b1ff41\">Trump instructed<\/a> the Commerce Department to have the Census Bureau start work on a new census that would exclude immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally from the head count.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitution\u2019s 14th Amendment says \u201cthe whole number of persons in each state\u201d should be counted for the numbers used for apportionment, the process of divvying up congressional seats, and Electoral College votes among the states. The Census Bureau has interpreted that to mean anybody living in the U.S., regardless of legal status.<\/p>\n<p>The bureau did not respond Thursday to inquiries seeking comment about why the ACS questions were being used for the 2026 test.<\/p>\n<p>Terri Ann Lowenthal, a former congressional staffer who consults on census issues, said the ACS questions have never been used for a census field test before. She said the 2026 test \u2014 which was pared down from six locations to two \u2014 has become \u201ca shell of what the Census Bureau proposed and should do to ensure an accurate 2030 Census.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis full pivot from a real field test is alarming and deserves immediate congressional attention, in my view,\u201d Lowenthal said.<\/p>\n<p>The field test gives the statistical agency the chance to learn how to better tally populations that were undercounted during the last census in 2020 and improve methods that will be used in 2030. Among the new methods being tested is the use of U.S. Postal Service workers <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2030-census-bureau-postal-service-2acbdc2f85b168990859b9087f357e96\">to conduct tasks<\/a> previously done by census workers.<\/p>\n<p>The test originally was supposed to take place in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2030-census-test-apportionment-redistricting-6e71032f78e47a28dafe86e93dfa0f87\">six places<\/a>, but the Trump administration earlier this week announced that it had eliminated four sites \u2014 Colorado Springs, Colorado, western North Carolina, western Texas and tribal lands in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Mather, an associate vice president at the Population Reference Bureau, a nonpartisan research group, said he couldn\u2019t speculate on political motivations behind the decision to use the ACS questions, but said the more fundamental concern was methodological.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ACS form wouldn\u2019t provide a valid test of 2030 census operations,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a completely different animal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his first term, President Donald Trump unsuccessfully <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ade8a97cb1944da2983a3c89cb5dcda8\">tried to add<\/a> a citizenship question to the 2020 census form. He also signed orders that would have excluded people who are in the U.S. illegally from the apportionment figures and mandated the collection of citizenship data.<\/p>\n<p>The attempt to add the citizenship question was blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court, and both orders were <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-census-2020-aa774e5d530354767c712ec44d7cfa04\">rescinded when Democratic President Joe Biden arrived<\/a> at the White House in January 2021, before the 2020 census figures were released.<\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers in Congress recently have introduced legislation that would exclude some non-citizens from the apportionment figures. 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