Biden Takes Action to Reverse Trump Actions on the Undocumented and the 2020 Census
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
 President Biden | President Joseph R Biden, Jr. issued an executive order today reversing former President Donald J. Trump's effort to exclude the undocumented from being considered for the purposes of apportioning seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. The action, embodied in Executive Order 13986, was one of six migration-related first-day actions taken by the new president. |
The new President's actions revoked two Trump-era measures: Executive Order 13880 of July 11, 2019 (Collecting Information About Citizenship Status in Connection With the Decennial Census), and the Presidential Memorandum of July 21, 2020 (Excluding Illegal Aliens From the Apportionment Base Following the 2020 Census).
In the executive order, aimed at the Secretary of Commerce, the official who administers the decennial census, the President ordered that "the Secretary shall use tabulations of population reflecting the whole number of persons whose usual residence was in each State as of the census date, without regard to immigration status, in reports provided to the Governor and officers or public bodies having responsibility for legislative apportionment or districting of each State."
In the executive order, aimed at the Secretary of Commerce, the official who administers the decennial census, the President ordered that "the Secretary shall use tabulations of population reflecting the whole number of persons whose usual residence was in each State as of the census date, without regard to immigration status, in reports provided to the Governor and officers or public bodies having responsibility for legislative apportionment or districting of each State."
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