Satire: Citizenship Census Question

Ministry of Truth Mohuckabee Al Sanders

"This is a question that's been included in every census since 1965," Minister of Truth Sanders said Tuesday, "with the exception of 2010, when it was removed."

A timid reporter asked, wasn't 1950 the last time that question was in the census?

Our understanding is that the census collects no Personally Identifying Information, what we in the know call PII, answered the nation's senior truthteller.

My grandfather was put in a Japanese Internment camp in WWII, partly because the U.S. Census Bureau gave the U.S. Secret Service information about the whereabouts of some Japanese-Americans, cried a reporter from the Honolulu Craigsvertiser.

I've been told that's because they were Japanese, it wasn't personal answered, Comic Huckabee.

In the years following 9/11, the Census Bureau gave the Department of Homeland Security detailed information about the places where Arab Americans live. Why wouldn't there be a concern they would provide data to ICE?

Because the data is confidential. And we all need to understand we need as much accurate data as possible because we need to gerryman, er, apportion the seats in the house of representatives appropriately. After all, if congress loses trust in the census, we would have a real mess on our hands, so far as we know.