Trump seeks to change how census collects data and wants to exclude immigrants in US illegally

Washington – On Thursday, President Donald Trump ordered the Ministry of Commerce to change the way the American Statistics Office collects data, and is seeking to exclude illegal immigrants in the United States.

The Republican President on the social media platform, an indication that he may try to inject his policy into a number of political forces and how to distribute federal financing, said that the census data groups are documents to “the facts and numbers of the modern era, and most importantly, using the results and information gained from the presidential elections for the year 2024”, indicating that he may try to inject its policies into a number of head that determines political power and how to distribute federal financing.

Trump confirmed that as part of the changes, people in our country illegally will be excluded from the census.

Experts said that it is not clear what Trump called exactly, whether it is changes in the 2030 census or a number in the middle of the contract, and if so, whether it will be used to expand the middle of the contract, which is the process of dividing Congress seats between the states based on the population.

Any changes in a national census, which is the largest non -military pledge by the federal government, will require amendments to the Statistics Law and the approval of Congress, which bears the responsibilities of supervision, and is likely to be a fierce battle. Terry Ann Lental, a former employee of Congress who is consulting in census cases, said, while the Statistics Law allows the middle of the contract to distribute federal financing, but it cannot be used for division and must be done in a year that ends in 5.

“He cannot order unilaterally to a new census. Statistics rules the law, not to mention the constitution,” Lental said. “Logistics, it is a half baked idea.”

Jeffrey Weiss, a professor of law in New York, said that it will be impossible from logistical aspects of a census in the middle of the contract in such a short period of time.

“This is not something you can do overnight,” said WICE, an expert in census and re -dividing the circles. “To put all the pieces together, this will be a huge challenge, if not impossible.”

The truth publication is really suitable for the general pattern in which he tried to reshape the basic measures of how American society is committing, a process ranging from monthly jobs to how to attract the Congress regions in the renewal elections in 2026. But there may be legal challenges if it has to reshape the statistics, which also directs the distribution of $ 2.8 trillion of federal funds to the states for roads, health care and other programs.

In the 2019 decision, the Supreme Court has already prevented Trump from adding a sexual issue to the 2020 census. The fourteenth amendment says that “the full number of people in each state must be calculated for the numbers used for division, and the process of allocating Congress seats and electoral college votes between the states based on the population.

The last time that the statistics included an issue about nationality in 1950, and the statistical office experts expected that millions of Spanish and immigrants will not go if the census asks everyone whether he or she is an American citizen.

The changes in the census can also play the efforts made by Trump to urge many Republican -led countries, including Texas, to redraw their maps in Congress before the specified date in ways to prefer Republican candidates.

The re -division of circles occurs once every 10 years after the census, as countries adjust the borders of the boycott based on the changes of the population, and often acquire or lose seats in this process.

Although Texas has re -drawn its maps just a few years ago, Trump presses the state’s Republicans to repeat the Torik again, claiming that it is “entitled” to five additional Republican seats. The Republicans in Texas have pointed out population growth as a justification for the re -drawing of Congress. The country currently has 38 home seats, 25 seats maintained by Republicans.

The Trump team is also involved in discussions of the re -division of circles in other states controlled by the Republican Party, including Missouri and Indiana.

Last Friday, Trump, head of the Labor Statistics Office, launched Erika Minarker, after the record reviews of the monthly job report showed that employers added 258,000 jobs less than before in May and June. Reviews indicated that employment was strongly weakened during the Trump era, undermining his allegations with an economic boom.

The White House insists that the problem was the size of the reviews and that it wants accurate numbers.

After the Supreme Court stopped the issue of citizenship in 2019, Trump made another effort in 2020, as he announced a plan to exclude the people who live in the country illegally from the distribution numbers.

After a lawsuit against states and organizations, the minimum courts ruled that the plan is illegal. By the time when the Supreme Court weighs, Trump has offered his re -election. Judges have avoided a decision on the legitimacy of Trump’s plan, and they put the case on technical procedural foundations. The court said, in an uncomfortable opinion, not only talking about the six conservative majority. The: We do not express any point of view on the advantages of constitutional and self -relevant legal claims. We only believe that it is not suitable for judgment at this time. “

The three liberal judges opposed, saying that the efforts made to exclude people in the country from the population to divide the home seats illegal.

“I think this court should say that,” Judge Stephen Prayer wrote, joined by judges Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomior.

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AP Mark Sherman’s writer in Washington contributed to this report. Schneider mentioned from Orlando, Florida.