The constitution says that every ten years the government should count everyone in America to figure out the US House seats …..
In addition ?
Census figures are used for all sorts of other things …
Trump & Co. want make millions of undocumented people invisible….
A second federal court is blocking the Trump administration from removing undocumented immigrants from the 2020 census count used to reapportion seats in Congress among the states.
The Thursday order from the Northern District of California blocks the Census Bureau and Commerce Department from implementing a July order from President Donald Trump.
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over the issue in November. Those arguments stem from a similar order by a federal court in New York that also blocked the order. The Trump administration did not immediately say if it plans to appeal Thursday’s order.
The court ruled that the exclusion of undocumented immigrants violates the Constitution’s requirements about how congressional districts are apportioned. It also found the order violated other federal laws….