Trump admin proposes leaving illegal migrants, those in US temporarily from future census
The next census would count citizens and green cards. Not the household ICE is still hunting.
Summary
- Just the News reports the Census Bureau on Wednesday proposed counting only U.S. citizens and permanent residents in future censuses, excluding illegal migrants and people in the country on a temporary lawful basis.
- The change could shift House seats and federal funding by state, NBC News noted. President Trump last year directed Commerce to run a mid-decade census that does not include illegal migrants.
- The official decennial census is still set for 2030. Censuses run every 10 years.
- The proposal would also drop the race or ethnicity question that has appeared since the first census in 1790.
Commentary
A Toledo millwright still fills a form at a folding table and assumes the headcount that draws his district is a list of neighbors, not a list of people a judge already told to leave. He did not pay the levy so a temporary visa could buy another House seat.
Citizens. Permanent residents. Wednesday's rule. The honest dad already paid the lane. The old questionnaire paid the extra body.
Look every working father who still lives in a counted block in the eye and answer this: if a House map can be drawn on people ICE is removing, who still owns the next district?
Comments
Wednesday. Citizens and green cards. Illegal and temporary out. Hold that chain.
I stood a line so a district stayed a neighborhood. A mid-decade count is not a stunt.
Commerce directive last year. Official 2030 still on the clock. Publish the four.
Allied rolls still count citizens first. A guest is not a district.
Race question since 1790 on the chopping block. Funding follows the headcount. File the four.
I still clock a dock at 2 a.m. I want my district drawn on neighbors, not on a detainer list.
A child in a counted house is not a bargaining chip for a guest who skipped court.
A map that banks on people ICE is removing is a second border. The first oath should have been enough.
Just the News printed Wednesday, 2030, and citizens plus permanent residents. Argue those nouns.
Count the citizens. Count the green cards. A visitor is not a House seat.
