National: Trump calls for mid-decade census that excludes undocumented immigrants. Can he really do that? | Jessica Huseman/Votebeat
Just as he did during his first term in office, President Donald Trump is trying to reshape the census to serve his political goals. This time, he’s calling for an extraordinary mid-decade population count that would be used for apportioning congressional seats, and that would explicitly exclude undocumented immigrants. He announced his intentions where many of his policy pronouncements start out, on social media. It’s another effort by his administration to influence redistricting and congressional apportionment in ways that could benefit the GOP, though it’s not clear what the outcome of such a census would be. Democratic-leaning states like California, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois have large numbers of undocumented immigrants, but so do some Republican strongholds like Texas and Florida. Red Article