“very costly, harms the quality of the census count, and would use substantially less accurate citizenship status data than are available from administrative sources.”
Yep, the cost of that extra ink —are you a citizen — and the hiring of vast numbers of extra enumerators to implement it would stack up.
And we can’t have an accurate figure that dispels the “ll million illegals” repeated endlessly for the past 20 years.
Yet they came up with the money for ink to ask us if are we Hispanic or not at doctor offices, etc...they don’t have a problem telling us to press 1 for English...and so on..