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🗓️ 4 July 2025
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After several years of record-breaking illegal immigration, the second Trump administration is looking to make a significant change to the way that the U.S. Census is conducted. Specifically, they are seeking to end the practice of including illegal aliens when counting up a state’s official population.
Last month, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, Stephen Miller, said that the second Trump administration was determined “to clean up the census and make sure that illegal aliens are not counted.”
Mr. Miller didn’t mention it in that speech, but the ramifications of making this kind of change would be dramatic. This is because the census count is used to apportion the number of House seats that each state gets, to determine the number of votes that each state has in the electoral college, and to decide where trillions of dollars in government funds should flow. Meaning that the question of whether or not illegal aliens are counted could determine who controls the U.S. House of Representatives after 2030.
Let’s go through the details of the Trump administration’s plan together.
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0:00.0 | And now, let's talk about the U.S. Census. After we've had several years back-to-back of record-breaking |
0:06.9 | illegal immigration at the U.S. southern border, well, the second Trump administration is looking |
0:12.0 | to make a significant change to the way that the U.S. census is conducted every 10 years. |
0:17.6 | Specifically, they're looking to end the practice of including non-citizens when counting |
0:23.0 | up a state's official population total. Speaking on the matter just last month, you had the White |
0:29.9 | House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, Mr. Stephen Miller, say the following. |
0:33.6 | Will you try to exclude all of these illegal aliens that have come into this country over |
0:38.4 | the last four years from the 2030 census that this current administration will control and |
0:44.8 | operate? |
0:45.8 | Yes, absolutely. |
0:47.8 | And the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnik, he's passionate about this issue, he's |
0:52.6 | taking leadership on it, and he's going |
0:54.5 | to do everything he can to clean up the census and make sure that illegal aliens are not counted. |
0:59.6 | Of course, the best form of exclusion for illegal aliens is to exclude them from the country |
1:03.4 | completely by sending them back home, which is what the American people elected President |
1:07.7 | Trump to do and what we are doing. |
1:09.8 | Now, Mr. Miller did not mention it in this particular speech, but the ramifications of making |
1:14.6 | that kind of a change would be dramatic. |
1:17.6 | That's because the census count is used in a number of different ways. |
1:21.6 | Firstly, it's used to apportion the number of house seats that each state gets. |
1:25.6 | It's also used to determine the number of votes |
1:28.4 | that a state gets in the electoral college, and then also the census numbers helped to determine |
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