Donald Trump signs Executive Order preventing illegal immigrants from being counted in the census

  Donald Trump has been trying to make sure that illegal aliens are not counted on the 2020 census but he suffered a major setback in his quest back in July when the Supreme Court ruled he could not add a citizenship question to the census.

  Not willing to give up so easily, today the President signed an Executive Order which will prevent illegal immigrants from being counted in the census for the purpose of apportioning representation in the House. Here is more:

President Trump on Tuesday issued an order that blocks undocumented immigrants from being counted in the 2020 census for the purpose of allocating congressional representation.

The rationale for the memo rests on the argument that the president has final say over transmitting the final census report to Congress and that the Constitution does not explicitly define which persons must be included in determining apportionment.

“The discretion delegated to the executive branch to determine who qualifies as an ‘inhabitant’ includes authority to exclude from the apportionment base aliens who are not in a lawful immigration status,” the order states. “Excluding these illegal aliens from the apportionment base is more consonant with the principles of representative democracy underpinning our system of Government.  

  According to the above-linked article Donald Trump specifically calls out California as an example, as well as the vast left wing conspiracy (my words, not his) which I think was a terrible idea because it makes it look like political revenge and I can see it coming back to haunt him when this makes it back to the Supreme Court.

  The challenges are already lining up and with the Supreme Court holding a 5-4 liberal majority and with the previous ruling on this issue I have to believe this has no chance of standing.

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