JUST IN: President Trump has signed a presidential memorandum that would exclude undocumented immigrants from being counted in congressional districts when district lines are redrawn next year
The memorandum marks the Trump administration's latest effort to change the way US populations are counted and advance the President's immigration agenda, and like previous efforts is certain to end up in court.
The Constitution says congressional representation is apportioned based on"the whole Number of free Persons," not only those who are American citizens."The legal problem is that the 14th Amendment says that representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons," said Joshua Geltzer of the Georgetown University Law Center.
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