For more than two centuries, the United States has counted every person within its borders when apportioning political power and distributing public resources — a practice rooted in the idea that presence, not legal status, defines a community's needs. Now the Trump administration has proposed severing that tradition, seeking to exclude undocumented immigrants and temporary visa holders from the decennial census, a change that would redraw the map of representation and redirect trillions of dollars in federal assistance. The proposal arrives not in isolation but as part of a broader effort to
Trump administration proposes excluding noncitizens from US census count
Exclusion of noncitizens from census could reduce federal funding and resources for communities with significant immigrant populations, affecting access to services.