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    To Figure Out Who's A Citizen, Trump Administration Is Using These Records

    After failing to get the now-blocked citizenship question onto 2020 census forms, the Trump administration is turning to IRS tax forms, Medicaid data and Interior Department law enforcement records.
    by Hansi Lo Wang May 20, 2020 4 minutes
    A sign encourages newly sworn-in U.S. citizens to register to vote outside a naturalization ceremony in 2019 in Los Angeles. After failing to get the now-blocked citizenship question on the 2020 census, the Trump administration is continuing to gather government records to produce citizenship data for redistricting.

    You will not find a citizenship question on the 2020 census forms.

    But in the months since federal courts permanently blocked the Trump administration from asking the hotly-contested question for this year's national head count, the administration has been pushing ahead with a backup plan — amassing government records to try to determine the U.S. citizenship status of every adult living in the country.

    Information from the U.S. Army, federal prisons and the Department of the Interior's law enforcement system are among the newly disclosed batch of records the Census Bureau says it is using to comply with President Trump's executive order for citizenship, according to the bureau quietly earlier this month.

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