Trump's New EO Just Changed Everything
Trump orders a new census excluding undocumented immigrants…
If you thought the left was whining before, they are about to outdo themselves
So, in essence, the Democrats left our borders open for 18M+ illegal immigrants they invited into our country, groomed them to vote Democrat, are now whining that illeglas are being deported, and now are going to have a hissy fit because ANY illegal immigrant cannot be counted in the census, which determines the Congressional seats and Electoral votes.
Got it…
Former President Donald Trump has issued executive orders and memoranda aimed at excluding undocumented immigrants from census counts used for congressional apportionment.
This move has been met with legal challenges and debate over constitutional interpretation.
This policy shift would affect how congressional seats are allocated and how federal funds are distributed to states, potentially benefiting states with fewer non-citizens, typically Republican-leaning states, while impacting others, such as New York and California, that have larger undocumented populations.
Historically, the U.S. Census Bureau has counted "the whole number of persons in each State" regardless of immigration status since 1790, a practice supported by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
President Trump first attempted to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, but the Supreme Court blocked this effort in 2019 on procedural grounds.
Following this, in July 2020, he issued a memorandum and an executive order to exclude undocumented immigrants from the apportionment base and to use administrative records to determine the number of non-citizens.
Upon entering office in January 2021, President Joe Biden issued Executive Order 13986 [archive], which revoked Trump's previous orders and affirmed the longstanding practice of including all persons residing in each state, regardless of immigration status, for census enumeration and congressional apportionment.
However, on his first day in his second term in January 2025, President Trump rescinded Biden's Executive Order 13986 with his own Executive Order 14148 [archive], clearing the path for his administration to attempt to alter apportionment counts.
This re-initiated directive for a "new census" that would count only American citizens, aligning with proposed legislation like the "Making American Elections Great Again Act."
Opponents of Trump's executive orders argue that excluding undocumented immigrants from the census is unconstitutional and would lead to inaccurate population counts, which are crucial for allocating House of Representatives seats and distributing federal funding for various programs.
Legal challenges against this policy have been filed by Republican state attorneys general who seek to exclude non-citizens from apportionment counts, and these cases were paused to allow the Trump administration to determine its approach.
Critics also express concerns that such a policy could discourage participation in the census, exacerbating undercounts of certain populations.