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| Pres. Trump drops census citizenship question, vows to get data from government |
| 2019-07-12 |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump ended his quest on Thursday to add a contentious citizenship question to the 2020 census, but insisted he was not retreating from his fight against illegal immigration and said the government would obtain the data by combing through federal records. "We are not backing down on our effort to determine the citizenship status of the United States population," Trump said in an announcement at the White House. He said he was ordering every government agency to provide the Department of Commerce with all requested records regarding the number of citizens and non-citizens in the country. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 what would the "obtained data from government records" be used for? Moving the Overton Window. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-07-12 20:03 |
| #9 If it's not on the census form, I don't think it can be used for re-apportionment. If that's correct, it raises the question: what would the "obtained data from government records" be used for? |
| Posted by: charger 2019-07-12 17:16 |
| #8 In 1940 and 1950, they just asked where you were born. All of the forms are available here. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2019-07-12 17:00 |
| #7 I believe the Robert's SCOTUS decision will be the Dred Scott of our times. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-07-12 16:39 |
| #6 I do not return the census living in NJ. I'm doing my part to reduce idiot Leftist representation in Congress. #JUSTDONTANSWER |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2019-07-12 12:13 |
| #5 Without a citizenship question the census is a fraud. Since I live in CA my vote has been cancelled out by illegal aliens who game the system. So I will not participate in the census to cancel out illegal alien census returns. In CA there is no reason to participate in the census because it only benefits the opposition party that controls this state. So there. Two can play that game. |
| Posted by: boomerc 2019-07-12 04:53 |
| #4 |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-07-12 03:09 |
| #3 Do you have any idea how long you'll be on hold calling that number? My all-time record on hold with the IRS's Practitioner Priority Line (866-860-4259) from four years ago was 1 hour 54 minutes. Just to note, that was during the Obama administration, when it was done on purpose, just to piss us off. |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-07-12 01:27 |
| #2 ...but insisted he was not retreating from his fight against illegal immigration 1) Nice inline editorializing from Reuters there, isn't it? 2) When's the last time you've seen Trump back down from a fight? |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-07-12 01:11 |
| #1 this question was on the short form for many years then migrated to the long form (only about a 10% sample got this) Obama got rid of the long form for the 2010 census. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2019-07-12 01:02 |