Can Trump Call a New Census and Leave Out Immigrants in the Country Illegally?

Can Trump call a new census and leave out immigrants in the country illegally?

In a week when highly partisan redistricting dominated the news, President Donald Trump took a step further Aug. 7 when he said he had ordered the Commerce Department to start […] The post Can Trump call a new census and leave out immigrants in the country illegally? appeared first on Poynter.

PBS Drops New Euphemism for Illegals: 'People Without Legal Status'

The PBS News Hour aggressively, almost amusingly avoided the term “illegal” to describe illegal immigrants in Friday’s story on President Trump’s call for a new U.S. Census that would not count illegal immigrants, a move that would change the recorded population of various states and perhaps result in fewer members in the congressional delegation of some states with high illegal-immigrant populations. Host Geoff Bennett: President Trump's call f…

Trump is right: Census should not count illegal immigrants

When it comes to President Donald Trump, it feels like every policy position is a never-ending source of rage-inducing debate. Whether it’s tariff announcements and unannouncements that spark cheers or groans, foreign policy decisions that pit so-called hawks against so-called noninterventionists and isolationists, or anything to do with the “hoax”-addled Jeffrey Epstein files, it seems like the Trump administration just can’t catch a break when…

Count ’em all: Trump has no authority to muck with 2030 Census Bureau count

Not caring about the U.S. Constitution is a regular refrain for President Trump, who now wants to exclude undocumented people from the 2030 census count — a nonstarter as much else is in this bizarro world we now inhabit, promulgated via a screed on his Truth Social platform — is both a terrible idea and certainly a rehash. Trump attempted something similar during his first term in office as the 2020 census closed in, deciding to suddenly includ…

Trump’s senseless census decree

Donate to Democratic candidate Adam Frisch. Donate to Palmer Report. Hi it's Bill Palmer. Support my renewed effort to stop Donald Trump. Donate $5 now.On Thursday, Trump decreed on “Truth” Social, “I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024 … Peop…