专家说通过美国人口普查收集移民资料用于众院席位分配违宪 一些民权组织和好几个美国城市和县对美国联邦政府提出起诉，称特朗普总统府试图将无证移民排除在美国人口普查之外是行不通的，也是违宪的。 美国人口普查将决定美国国会众议院席位的分配。 美国民权自由联盟执行律师萨拉·布兰农对美国之音说，“这么做是行不通的。” 她接着说，特朗普要求在人口普查中确定接受普查的人的公民身份难以做到，而且“不是很可靠。” 另一个公民自由组织共同事业组织星期四提出诉讼，对特朗普的行政令提出挑战。 新泽西州、乔治亚州的一些城市加入了诉讼。 维吉尼亚州的阿灵顿县星期五也加入了诉讼。 阿灵顿县的管理董事会主席加维说，“美国宪法要求每10年准确地清点我们的人口。我们必须准确地清点居住在阿灵顿县的每一个人，不能让这种非法试图吓跑人和压缩我们的移民社区人数的做法得逞。” 另一些组织和个人则赞扬特朗普总统的行政令。 阿拉巴马州司法部长马歇尔称，该行政令是该州的一个“胜利”。 他说，“分配各州的国会众议院席位和选举团席位的时候，必须根据居住在各州的居民人数，而且是合法居住的居民的人数。” 美国最高法院去年阻止了特朗普行政当局将公民身份问题纳入2020年人口普查表中。 特朗普总统本星期早些时候签署一项行政令，指令监管美国人口普查局的商业部长罗斯提交人口普查所得的无证人口的数据，以便行政当局将这些无证人口排除在各州的人口普查数字之外，并以此确定每个州究竟是增加还是减少或保持众议院议员席位。 美国每隔10年就要根据人口变化情况重新分配众议院席位。
Experts say it is unconstitutional to collect immigration data through U.S. Census for seat allocation in the House of Representatives Some civil rights organizations and governments of several U.S. cities and counties filed suits against the U.S. federal government, claiming that the attempts made by Trump’s Presidential Palace to exclude undocumented immigrants from the U.S. Census are unworkable and unconstitutional. The U.S. Census will determine allocation of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Sarah Brannon, the executive attorney of the American Civil Liberties Alliance, told VOA, "It won't work. ” She went on to say that Trump's request to identify the citizenship of the people through the census is difficult and "not very reliable. ” Another civil liberties organization Common Cause filed a lawsuit on Thursday to challenge Trump's executive order. Some cities in New Jersey and Georgia joined the lawsuit. Arlington County, Virginia, also joined the lawsuit on Friday. Arlington County Board of Management Chairman Garvey said, "The U.S. Constitution requires an accurate count of our population every 10 years.  We must accurately count everyone who lives in Arlington County, and we will not allow this illegal attempt for scaring away people and shrinking the number of our immigrant communities to succeed. ” Some other organizations and individuals praised President Trump's executive order. Alabama Attorney General Marshall called the executive order a "victory" for the state. He said, "The allocation of seats in the House of Representatives and Electoral College seats in each state must be based on the number of residents living in each state, and the number should be that of the residents living legally there. ” The U.S. Supreme Court last year prevented the Trump administration from including citizenship issues in the 2020 census form. President Trump signed an executive order earlier this week instructing Secretary of Commerce of the U.S. Census Bureau to submit data on the undocumented population obtained from the census so that the administration can exclude these undocumented populations from the state census, and in addition to that, the data will be used to determine whether each state will increase or decrease or maintain the seats of the House of Representatives. The United States redistributes the seats of House of Representatives every 10 years based on the demographic changes.