President Donald Trump is looking to change the way the U.S. Census Bureau collects data, wanting to exclude immigrants who are in the United States illegally.

But several experts told Newsweek that excluding people living in the country without legal status from the head count used to allocate congressional seats among the states and determine how federal funding is distributed would run afoul of the U.S. Constitution.

Trump wrote on Truth Social last week that he had instructed the Department of Commerce to have the Census Bureau start work on "a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024."

He added: "People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNT

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