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As a #2020Census reporter, I've been tracking signals since 2017 that President Trump would one day publicly call for unauthorized immigrants to be excluded from the census numbers used to divide up seats in Congress.
That day was today... https://www.npr.org/2020/07/21/892340508/with-no-final-say-trump-wants-to-change-who-counts-for-dividing-up-congress-seat
That day was today... https://www.npr.org/2020/07/21/892340508/with-no-final-say-trump-wants-to-change-who-counts-for-dividing-up-congress-seat
2. Back in August 2019, I reported on remarks that raised concerns the Trump administration won't follow more than 200 years of precedent in dividing up congressional seats based on population counts that include unauthorized immigrants. https://www.npr.org/2019/08/14/749930756/do-trump-officials-plan-to-break-centuries-of-precedent-in-divvying-up-congress
3. March 10, 2017: Then-Commerce official Earl Comstock emails Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross & then-White House adviser Eric Branstad to confirm Census Bureau includes noncitizens living in the US, including unauthorized immigrants, in apportionment count
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4619371-Page-2521-Of-Administrative-Record-For-Census.html#document/p1/a443003
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4619371-Page-2521-Of-Administrative-Record-For-Census.html#document/p1/a443003
4. July 14, 2017: Kris Kobach emails Ross to "follow up on our telephone discussion from a few months ago," suggests wording for a citizenship question that asks about immigration status and flags an apportionment "problem"
https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4500011-1-18-Cv-02921-Administrative-Record#document/p776/a428457
https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4500011-1-18-Cv-02921-Administrative-Record#document/p776/a428457
