Immigrant advocates condemned the Trump administration's plan to include a question about the immigration status of respondents in a 2030 census pilot test to be conducted in the coming months.

The Republican administration revealed it will include the controversial question in the test, responding to a request from Republicans to Counting people based on their immigration status.

“Make no mistake: adding a citizenship question is a calculated attempt to suppress Latino participation and erase other communities of color from the US map,” the nonprofit organization Voto Latino warned in a statement.

The organization called the plan “a direct attack” that seeks to deprive states with immigrant populations of resources.

He added that the proposal violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which requires that every person living in the United States be counted, regardless of their immigration status. Last year, Trump proposed a 2026 census that would exclude undocumented immigrants, among his fight for new electoral districts that would favor Republicans in Congress. The president backed down from his attempt after experts labeled the new count “unconstitutional,” since the Constitution stipulates that the census must occur every 10 years—the next one is in 2030—“counting the whole number of persons in each state,” from which the distribution of federal resources and electoral representation is derived. In his first term, the Republican had already tried to include a citizenship question in the 2020 census, but the courts prevented him from doing so after several lawsuits. The Secretary of Commerce is expected to... Howard Lutnick, who oversees the Census Bureau in the United States, supports Trump's push to include the question on the final 2030 census forms. More than 68 million Latinos live in the United States.which represents almost one in five people in the country. However, it is estimated that a third of Latino households are at high risk of not being counted in the Census, mainly due to fears that their personal information could be shared with immigration enforcement agencies like ICE, according to data from Voto Latino.