The US president, Donald Trumpannounced Thursday that he ordered his administration to work “immediately” in a new “high precision” census that uses data obtained after the presidential elections of 2024 and that excludes undocumented immigrants, in the midst of a national controversy due to the redistribution of electoral maps.
“I have ordered our Trade Department to immediately begin to work in a new high precision census, based on current data and figures and, fundamentally, using the results and information obtained in the presidential elections of 2024,” he wrote in his social Truth network.
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The Republican, who since he returned to power in January has intensified his policy of Deportations and denial of asylumhe added that undocumented people currently in the country “will not be counted in the CENSUS”, Although he has always had the mandate to tell all the people who live in the country independent of their status.
The last population census of The United States was held in 2020 and the next one is scheduled for 2030.
Almost one in five workers in the United States was immigrant last year, according to data from the Census office.
According to the country’s constitution, which stipulates the frequency and procedures of the investigation, these are carried out every 10 years and their results are the only ones valid for the allocation of the electoral districts and the representation in Congress.
Congress, currently under republican controlhas the power to order additional or intermediate censuses through ordinary laws, although they are only used for statistical purposes and their findings should not be used for the redistribution of districts.
The actions of the American president coincide with an acute national controversy for the attempt of republican legislators in Texas to redraw the state electoral map, a proposal promoted by Trump that He would add five seats for his party in the US lower house in the face of medium mandate elections in 2026.
The presentation of the measure in the state legislature has caused intense rejection among Texas Democrats, who have abandoned the territory to block the progress of the proposal. In response, Republican governor Gregg Abbott has threatened to get the congressmen out of their positions and arrest them.
The detractors of the proposal insist on the unpublished of this redistribution in the middle of the decade as these movements are usually completed after new data provided by the censuses that USA He takes place every ten years.
Given this, several Democratic states such as California and New York They have assured that they could begin similar processes.
