"President Joe Biden has directed the Commerce Department to include illegal immigrants in the U.S. Census count for apportioning members of the House of Representatives, reversing a Trump administration policy that critics have been unable to stop through a lawsuit.
"The Secretary [of the Department of Commerce] shall report the tabulation of the total population by State that reflects the total number of persons whose usual residence in each State was as of the established census date in section 141(a) of title 13, United States Code, without regard to immigration status," the executive order signed Wednesday states in part.
It specifies the revocation of former President Donald Trump's executive order that directed the Census Bureau to calculate the number of illegal aliens and exclude them from the count used to allocate House districts to the various states and, by extension, Electoral College votes."
