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N.Y. Officials Say Census Citizenship Question Would Deter Participation

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 4/2/18

The New York Immigration Coalition, City Council Members, Members of Congress and other elected officials and community groups will work to block the Trump Administration’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, they announced at a March 28 press conference.

Members of the coalition, called New York Counts 2020, fear that asking census participants if they are U.S. citizens may decrease response rates, and said at the Immigration Coalition’s Midtown headquarters that they are fighting to ensure that “every single resident is counted.”

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