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Trump orders work on new census, says people in US illegally 'WILL NOT BE COUNTED'

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President Donald Trump declared in a Thursday morning Truth Social post that he has directed the Commerce Department to start working on a new census, noting that illegal aliens in the U.S. will not be included in the population count.

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