Proposed law would mandate US census citizenship question
Representative Andrew Clyde introduced the Make Apportionment Great Again Act ('MAGA Act'), a proposed bill that would amend Section 141 of Title 13 United States Code in relation to the census.
It would require that, starting from the next census in 2030, the decennial population census would need to include in its questionnaires a question asking the respondent to indicate whether they are a US citizen, a national of the US but not a citizen, an ‘alien lawfully residing in the United States’ or ‘an alien unlawfully residing in the United States’.
Within 120 days after the completion of the census, the commerce secretary would be required to make the results of the question per state publicly available.
The MAGA Act would also add an exclusion from apportionment in 2 U.S.C. 2a(a) for "individuals who are not citizens of the United States.”
The bill has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
The Trump administration previously attempted to add a question on citizenship to the 2020 census, but the US Supreme Court blocked the move in 2019.
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