Court deems Trump's efforts to exclude illegal immigrants from a census count as unlawful

Published September 10, 2020 8:23pm ET



Illegal immigrants will be included in the 2020 census count used to determine congressional seats, a federal court ruled in a rebuke to President Trump.

The court ruled on Thursday that President Trump’s directive to exclude U.S. residents living in the country illegally from the specific census count that allocates congressional seats violates federal law, according to CNN.

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