BY BRETT SAMUELS AND RAFAEL BERNAL
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.
President Trump's executive order, which immediately prompted legal challenges, amounts to something of a workaround for Trump after the Supreme Court last year blocked the administration from adding a citizenship question to the decennial survey.
The order, as written, states, " 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. Excluding these illegal aliens from the apportionment base is more consonant with the principles of representative democracy underpinning our system of Government.
California, a state represented overwhelmingly by Democrats in Congress, is implicitly called out in making the argument for discounting undocumented immigrants, noting that "one State is home to more than 2.2 million illegal aliens."
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