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Who Counts? Trump Poised To Try To Remove Noncitizens From Census
Gateway Pundit ^

Posted on 06/29/2025 6:12:34 AM PDT by janetjanet998

Following a years-long surge in illegal immigration, the Trump administration is poised to challenge a longstanding but legally fraught practice: counting illegal aliens in the U.S. census.

President Trump tried to end the practice during his first term, but President Biden overturned his predecessor’s policy before it was implemented. Now, buoyed by red state attorneys general and Republican legislators, the second Trump administration is determined “to clean up the census and make sure that illegal aliens are not counted,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller said last month.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; census; citizenship; fraud
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1 posted on 06/29/2025 6:12:34 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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The Libs will meltdown (again)


2 posted on 06/29/2025 6:13:26 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Please don’t use google products, especially YouTube )
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YAY!!!


3 posted on 06/29/2025 6:13:49 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Democracy to Demo rats is stealing other peoples money for their use, no matter how idiotic)
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To: janetjanet998

MORE WINNING!!

I VOTED for THIS!


4 posted on 06/29/2025 6:14:46 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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If the census is to count citizens then that should preclude criminal aliens.


5 posted on 06/29/2025 6:16:56 AM PDT by Ronald77
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Agree....Illegals should not be counted...they are NOT residents.


6 posted on 06/29/2025 6:18:26 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: janetjanet998

A census is used to count AMERICANS. If foreign nationals want to be counted, they need to go home and have their own country count them. This will keep illegals from colonizing America and filling our government with America-hating foreign national politicians. Americans didn’t vote for Zohran. Communist Zohranis did. Mexico is getting ready to take over California and Americans aren’t going to be able to do anything about it. We are being colonized by Joe Pedo’s illegal alien invaders.


7 posted on 06/29/2025 6:19:27 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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I thought SCOTUS ruled that that question couldn’t be asked in the census.


8 posted on 06/29/2025 6:24:08 AM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: janetjanet998

The way it should be. Counting illegal aliens is like counting tourists.


9 posted on 06/29/2025 6:25:22 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: janetjanet998

Longstanding? I thought Obama was the one who removed the citizenship question from the census form.


10 posted on 06/29/2025 6:26:31 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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As someone who spent over 10 years doing my family’s history, I’ve learned that Censuses really suck. The 1890 census, one that was very important to my research burned up. It doesn’t exist. Censuses are primarily used for the DemonRATS to get more seats in the House and engage in Gerrymandering. Get rid of it.


11 posted on 06/29/2025 6:38:51 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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The headline is misleading. The census will include legal aliens. The headline states only citizens will be counted. The headline is a trick of the left to present false information.


12 posted on 06/29/2025 6:38:57 AM PDT by vaskypilot
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I worked for the 2020 Census. My first job was "quality control" visiting designated houses to confirm data already received. I was then promoted to a desk job analyzing data on a laptop given to me by the government (this was during the lockdown).

In my training for my first job I was told that I must not ask any questions about citizenship or anything related to citizenship. Most of the homes I was assigned to visit were in middle class...or "upper class"...suburban neighborhoods so apart from one Korean lady's home I visited (she spoke perfect English and lived in an upscale neighborhood) I didn't really run across any foreigners.

13 posted on 06/29/2025 6:40:33 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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Unfortunately, this is a bad move that is a result of SCOTUS decision that they couldn’t ask for citizenship status for certain intent.


14 posted on 06/29/2025 6:41:09 AM PDT by paudio (MATH: 45<47)
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You’re right, and THIS is the proverbial hill the Democrats would “die on”; as fudging the census to count illegals gains them more seats in the House of Representatives. Cleaning it up only helps Republicans and the citizens who belong here.


15 posted on 06/29/2025 6:41:19 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (I'm Not Sure...)
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To: janetjanet998

What is necessary is NOT to remove them from the Census. What is important is to disqualify them for purposes of congressional reapportionment.

The Census itself has become a vast enterprise collecting statistical information for myriad purposes. That’s not why it was required in the constitution. Call it mission creep if you want. Maybe the census should be trimmed way back — in which case, we would simply create separate reporting regimes to collect the data that has been a census produce for generations.

The reality is that this data is extremely useful for myriad purposes. It should be collected. We can argue about the particulars and the limits, but it is kinda, sorta important for a city to know how many people actually live there and who they might be. Count ‘em.

Non-citizens shouldn’t count for congressional reapportionment. But we shouldn’t pretend they aren’t here. What to do about them is a separate question.


16 posted on 06/29/2025 6:41:35 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: vaskypilot
I don't believe that legal aliens should be counted. These figures determine representation in the House and only US citizens should be counted to determine that representation.
17 posted on 06/29/2025 6:42:56 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: janetjanet998

Capital idea no more Bolsheviks masked as democrats.


18 posted on 06/29/2025 6:43:08 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: janetjanet998

Best thing that could possibly happen. Democrats will immediately abandon illegals if this happens.


19 posted on 06/29/2025 6:43:55 AM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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All (Demoncrat) states where illegals were counted should lose representation in Congress. This one move alone would guarantee a Republican supermajority in house.

Next, states where election fraud in the form of ballot boxes and harvesting should lose Senate seats. Dems cannot maintain any relevance without the cheat.


20 posted on 06/29/2025 6:47:30 AM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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