The national census including a question about citizenship would deter millions of Latinos and immigrants from filling it out, even if they have US passports, writes Jorge Luis Vasquez Jr. of USA Today. This large group of people not being counted in the vital census would result in their needs not being met. Traffic jams, overfilled classrooms, overburdened hospitals and not enough public funding being allocated to an area are issues that this would worsen. Additionally, the democratic representation of an area is determined by the census. Excluding millions of immigrants would result in them getting less democratic representation, a violation of their rights.