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Trump orders the trade department to start workg on the new census

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President Donald Trump declared in a social post of truth on Thursday morning that he had ordered the trade department to start working on a new census, noting that illegal foreigners in the United States will not be included in the number of populations.

“I asked our Ministry of Commerce immediately starting to work on a new very precise census based on modern facts and figures and, above all, using the results and information obtained from the 2024 presidential election,” said the president in the job.

“People who are illegally in our country will not be counted in the census. Thank you for your attention to this question!” He added.

The United States is carrying out a census each decade – the last ten -year census was carried out in 2020 and another is scheduled for 2030.

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President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump in the White House Oval Office in Washington, DC, Wednesday, August 6, 2025 (Bonnie Cash / Upi / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The ten -year census is essential to determine the balance of political power that each state holds, because the population counts are used in the distribution, the determination of the number of seats that each state obtains in the House of Representatives.

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Census office letter

Close -up of the human hand holding a letter from the census office concerning the 2020 census, San Ramon, California, April 24, 2020. (Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images)

Consequently, the count also determines the number of electoral votes that each state obtains for the presidential elections, because the number of electoral votes of a state is equivalent to the number of seats of the Chamber and the Senate in each State.

The 14th amendment to the American Constitution is partly read: “The representatives must be distributed among the different states according to their respective number, counting the total number of people in each state, excluding uncharted Indians”.

The US Census Bureau, which comes from the Ministry of Commerce, indicates that “unauthorized immigrants” are counted in the figures of the resident population, noting on a frequently asked question Web page That “all people (citizens and non-citizens) with a habitual residence in the United States are included in the resident population for census”.

The Supreme Court rejects the case on the exclusion of illegal immigrants from the counting of census as “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ `with` `speculation ”

Sign of the Commerce Department

A sign of the American trade department is exhibited at the Herbert C. Hoover Federal Building on June 9, 2025 in Washington, DC (Images Kevin Carter / Getty)

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During his first term, Trump published a memorandum In 2020, declaring that he “determined that respect for the law and the protection of the integrity of the democratic process justify the exclusion of illegal foreigners from the distribution base, to the extent feasible and to the maximum extent of the president’s discretion under the law”.

President Joe Biden published a executive decree In 2021 who revoked Trump’s memorandum, but Trump Revoked the order of Biden This year.

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