Trump bends the knee, again
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...citizenship-question-census/story?id=64262805
President Donald Trump announced Thursday he is backing down from his effort to include acitizenship question on the 2020 census, and will instead take executive action that instructs the Commerce Department to obtain an estimate of U.S. citizenship through other means.
"I am hereby ordering every department and agency in the federal government to provide the Department of Commerce with all requested records regarding the number of citizens and noncitizens in our country," Trump said in a Rose Garden announcement on Thursday afternoon. "They must furnish all legally accessible records in their possession immediately. We will utilize these vast federal databases to gain a full, complete, and accurate count of the noncitizen population."
"The decennial census generally included a citizenship inquiry for more than 100 years through 1950". Up until 2000 the citizenship question was included on long form surveys which were sent to every one out of six households.
The Census bureau is simply adding back a question that has been on the decennial survey for over a hundred years.
It is not illegal to ask people if they are citizens on a Census -- this has been done for decades and the information requests in Census surveys have always been held up in court cases as appropriate.
Once again -- this is merely reinstating a question that has always been on the Census survey until 2010. 'Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross “has determined that reinstatement of a citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census questionnaire is necessary to provide complete and accurate census block level data,” the statement said.' Anyone making a fuss about it is only driven by a political agenda and has their facts wrong.
https://www.elitetrader.com/et/thre...-question-to-2020-census.319587/#post-4630428
Good take on the issue. Looks like Wilbur Ross perjured himself to make this happen too.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...s-a-deepening-scandal/?utm_term=.2542e3a2d035
GWB is one of the only people in the politics section who is able to separate politics from principled beliefs. You have seen his criticism of the GOP over covid. GWB is a fair person, unlike you.
This issue is going to be decided by the Supreme Court. The liberal federal judge ruling means little; the case is already in front of the Supreme Court and will be decided shortly.
The citizenship question has been part of the Census for many years in the U.S. "The decennial census generally included a citizenship inquiry for more than 100 years through 1950". Up until 2000 the citizenship question was included on long form surveys which were sent to every one out of six households.
https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...d-be-meaningless-without-citizenship-question
Trump: Census would be 'meaningless' without citizenship question
what a maroon