Citizenship and being counted in the 2020 Census:
It is also important to remember that the Census Bureau is forbidden by law to pass along information about someone’s immigration status onto other government agencies like ICE.
- By law, your census responses cannot be used against you by any government agency or court in any way—not by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), not by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), not by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and not by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The law requires the Census Bureau to keep your information confidential and use your responses only to produce statistics.
- 2020 Confidentiality of Census Information Factsheet
- The 2020 questions can be found here.
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Households will NOT be asked about citizenship.
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Everyone living in the 50 states, District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories (Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) is required by law to be counted in the 2020 Census.
Hard to Count (HTC) Populations:
Organizations/Websites offering more information: