Advocates said the Trump Administration disrupted the survey with its effort to add a citizenship question to the census form, possibly deterring Hispanics and immigrants from participating, regardless of their citizenship status.

“As you can imagine, we are just terribly — I can’t even find the word right now — upset about the extent of the Latino undercount,” Arturo Vargas, CEO of NALEO Educational Fund, said, PBS News reports.

Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, also blamed the Trump administration.

“These numbers are devastating. Once again, we see an overcount of white Americans and an undercount of Black and Hispanic Americans,” Morial said, according to PBS News. “I want to express in the strongest possible terms our outrage.”

In the 2010 census, the Black population had a net undercount of more than 2%. The 2010 data also revealed an undercount of 1.5% for the Hispanic population. Additionally, the same report indicated an undercount of 4.9% for American Indian and Alaskan Natives living on reservations, as well as 0.08% for Asians. The non-Hispanic white population, according to the 2010 data, had a net overcount of 0.8%.

The census data is used to determine the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal spending each year. The figures also determine the number of congressional seats each state gets. As a result, inaccurate data in the report can impact the amount of funding and political representation that is given to various populations over the next decade.

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