Trump Signs Executive Order Excluding Illegal Immigrants from ‘Being Counted’ for Voting Districts

President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to prevent illegal immigrants from being counted for the purposes of re-drawing congressional districts after the 2020 census.

Trump will sign an Apportionment Memorandum on “Ensuring American Citizens Receive Proper Representation in Congress.”

A White House official said it clarifies that those in the country illegally would not be included for the redrawing process -- known as apportionment -- of congressional districts after the census. Census counts are used to determine the allocation of seats in the House of Representatives, the number of electors in the Electoral College and hundreds of billion dollars of federal spending.

“Excluding illegal aliens for the purpose of apportionment reflects a better understanding of our Constitution and democratic principles,” the official said.

The order says that the Constitution "does not specifically define which persons must be included in the apportionment base."

"Although the Constitution requires the 'persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed,' to be enumerated in the census, that requirement has never been understood to include in the apportionment base every individual physically present within a State's boundaries at the time of the census," the order says.

"Instead, the term 'persons in each State' has been interpreted to mean that only the 'inhabitants' of each State should be included," it says. "Determining which persons should be considered 'inhabitants' for th... (Read more)

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