“What, if any, are the ramifications of not filling out the census? Thanks.”
They will call you ceaselessly and eventually show up at your residence to interview you. If you decline to participate in the in-person interview maybe they start something at this point, I have not gone beyond.
I yell at them through the door, “two citizens live here.” That’s all I’m telling you. “Now get off my property.”
they did show up at my door the last time.
I received the long form (ACS) a few years past. . .asked all sorts of detailed personal and financial information.
Did not fill it out, threw it away.
A couple months later I received a call from a mexican sounding female, and I mean deeply accented mexican woman, could hardly understand her. I told her to pound sand, there was no way I was going to answer questions over the phone or in person or fill out that form.
She got huffy, not liking a mere citizen was shutting her down. I told her to get lost and began to hang up and she threatened to turn me in. Oh no! Now I’m scared.
A few weeks later, another mexican female showed up at my door and threatened me to answer. I said ‘no,’ not going to do that and this mexican female said she was going to report me because I was breaking “de-law” and she had a pamphlet citing laws requiring me to answer.
I took the pamphlet and said I need to research the law and slammed the door in her face. She stood outside and eventually knocked again and told me I have to answer and I told her it’s going to take possibly months for me to research the law and slammed the door in her sputtering cursing (in mexican) face. She stood there for about 10-15 minutes and left. . .never to be bothered again.
Bottom line, there is enabling legislation but there is no punishment listed and no American was ever prosecuted. . .still the same today I guess.
(I asked the original mexican female caller if she was an American citizen and she refused to answer. . .and over the next few months I saw census people walking around Alexandria, VA, and they ALL appeared to be female mexican or female central/south American. Apparently you don’t have to be a citizen to demand personal information of Americans.)