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Jul. 11, 2019 3:51 pm
“The Census Bureau had emphasized it could produce better citizenship data without adding the question to the census, recommending that it combine information from the annual American Community Survey with records held by other federal agencies.
"This would result in higher quality data produced at lower cost," Deputy Census Bureau Director Ron Jarmin wrote in a December 2017 email to a Justice Department official.
But Ross ultimately rejected that approach and ordered the citizenship question be added to the census.”