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Trump seeks to change how census collects data and wants to exclude immigrants in US illegally

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President Donald Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to change the way the U.S. Census Bureau collects data, seeking to exclude immigrants who are in the United States illegally, he said Thursday.

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