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  • Type:Presidential Document
    Citation:86 FR 7015
    Reading Time:about 5 minutes

    In this executive order, the President mandates that the counting of people for the decennial census for House of Representatives apportionment must include everyone living in each state, regardless of immigration status. This order reverses previous policies that aimed to exclude undocumented immigrants from the count. The order emphasizes that accurate and complete data must be used for the census and requires the Secretary of Commerce to ensure that the population count fully reflects each state's inhabitants. Additionally, it revokes earlier directives concerning the collection of citizenship information for the census.

    Simple Explanation

    In this document, the President says that when counting how many people live in each state to decide how many seats each state gets in the House of Representatives, everyone should be counted, including those who moved here from other countries without permission. This reverses older rules that wanted to leave these people out.