The American president made this request because the census is used in particular to determine the number of members of the electoral college, State by State, for the presidential election and to determine the number of elected officials at the Congress.
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The subject is very political. President Donald Trump asked on Thursday August 7 that the next census does not take into account the “Persons present illegally” In the United States, when the White House puts pressure on many local officials to rediscover the electoral card in favor of the Republicans.
The American Constitution provides that a census be carried out every ten years by counting “All people in each state”, including immigrants in an irregular situation. The next one must take place in 2030, but the preparations have already started for this colossal task in a country of more than 340 million inhabitants.
Donald Trump made this request because the census is used in particular to determine the number of members of the electoral college, State by State, for the presidential election, but also to determine the number of elected officials at the congress of each State.
The Pew Research Center estimated in 2020 that by withdrawing the undocumented immigrants from the American census, California, Texas and Florida each have lost a seat in the congress. Some conservative figures called on Thursday not to wait until 2030 and to make a new census as soon as possible, such as influencer Charlie Kirk who said he wanted to correct the 2020 census, “fair” According to him against the Republicans in a context of COVID-19.
Donald Trump had already attempted during his first mandate to change the established rules, including including a question on citizenship in census documents. But this measure had been rejected by the Supreme Court, without it being pronounced on the basis of the question of the presence of clandestine immigrants in the census.