President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on July 21 ordering the U.S. government to exclude illegal aliens from the calculations used to apportion congressional seats, based on the population survey conducted during the 2020 Census.
After the Supreme Court rejected the White House’s bid to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, Trump ordered all federal agencies to share information with the Department of Commerce (DOC) so that it could make an appropriate determination on the number of citizens, non-citizens, and illegal aliens in the United States.
