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https://www.npr.org/2020/09/10/9087...-change-who-counts-for-allocating-house-seats
I'm sure everyone knows the real reason the GOP wants to stop including undocumented people in the census counts.
A special three-judge court in New York on Thursday blocked the Trump administration's efforts to make an unprecedented change to who is included in the census numbers that determine each state's share of seats in Congress.
The president, the court concluded, cannot leave unauthorized immigrants out of that specific count.
The ruling comes after the July release of a memorandum by President Trump that directs Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the U.S. Census Bureau, to provide Trump with information needed to exclude immigrants living in the United States without authorization from the apportionment count.
Since the first U.S. census in 1790, the country's official once-a-decade population numbers used to reapportion seats in the House of Representatives have included both U.S. citizens and noncitizens, regardless of immigration status. Enacted after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment ended the counting of an enslaved person as "three fifths" of a free person by requiring the counting of the "whole number of persons in each state."
I'm sure everyone knows the real reason the GOP wants to stop including undocumented people in the census counts.