It is the reactivation of an old aspiration of Trump, who in his first presidency wanted to reintroduce in the questionnaire the question about citizenship that had been eliminated in the mid-twentieth century. Many activists claim that a census without undocumented persons would show an imprecise picture of the national population, its needs and its political representation.

President Donald Trump wants, again, that the Census with which the population of the United States is counted every ten years only takes into account the people who live legally in the country, something that goes against the way it has been done since 1790, when the first one was done.

Trump said on his social network on Thursday that he has instructed the Department of Commerce to modify the way the Census Bureau collects data, seeking to exclude immigrants who are in the United States without documents.

Excluding undocumented citizens would not only remove them from the registry, but potentially their relatives. In the case of mixed families, where several people have different immigration statuses, they may decide not to take part in the Census.

The United States Constitution requires that a distribution of representatives be made among the states every 10 years. Therefore, distribution is the original legal purpose of the ten-ye census, according to the intention of the Founders of the nation.

That would not only affect the distribution of electoral districts for the federal Congress, but the allocation of federal resources to states and counties for the provision of public services.

Trump insiste en sacar a los indocumentados del Censo: ¿qué pasó la última vez que quiso hacerlo?
 

Trump dijo en su red social este jueves que ha instruido al Departamento de Comercio para que modifique la forma en que la Oficina del Censo recopila datos, buscando excluir a los inmigrantes que se encuentran en Estados Unidos sin documentos.

Excluir a los ciudadanos indocumentados no solo los sacaría a estos del registro, sino, potencialmente, a sus familiares. En el caso de familias mixtas, donde varias personas tienen diferentes estatus migratorios, es posible que decidan no tomar parte en el Censo.

La Constitución de los Estados Unidos exige que se realice una distribución de representantes entre los estados cada 10 años. Por lo tanto, la distribución es el propósito legal original del censo decenal, según la intención de los Fundadores de la nación.

Eso no solo afectaría la distribución de distritos electorales para el Congreso federal, sino la asignación de recursos federales a estados y condados para la prestación de servicios públicos.