Posted on 07/08/2019 2:11:28 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) argued Monday that President Trump's push to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census is an effort to "make America white again" in an adaptation of his campaign slogan.
"This is about keeping — you know his hat — make America white again," Pelosi said at an event in San Francisco about election security legislation, referring to the red "Make America Great Again" hats that are popular among Trump supporters.
Pelosi, like other critics of adding the citizenship question to the 2020 census, argued that it could result in racial minorities being undercounted so that legislative maps can be drawn more favorably for Republicans.
"They want to make sure that people, certain people, are counted. It's really disgraceful. And it's not what our founders had in mind," Pelosi said. "What they want to do is put a chilling effect so certain populations will not answer the form."
President Trump told reporters late last week that he is considering an executive order to ensure the citizenship question is included on the census after the Supreme Court blocked the effort in a ruling last month. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Trump administration's argument that the citizenship question is needed to enforce a federal voting rights law didn't hold up to the evidence provided in the case. The court said that the Trump administration would have to offer a different legal justification for adding the question.
The Trump administration initially appeared to relent on pursuing the question. But the Justice Department reversed course last week and said that officials have been ordered to find a way for the Trump administration to include a citizenship question on the census.
House Democrats have been investigating the Trump administration's efforts to add the citizenship question. The House Oversight and Reform Committee voted last month to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with subpoenas for documents about adding the citizenship question to the census.
Most Hispanics are white, Nancy.
Hispanic isn’t a race, Nancy.
This coming from an old white women
“’And it’s not what our founders had in mind,’ Pelosi said.”
Well, she WAS there at America’s founding, so I guess she would know!
*SNORT*
Retire you Botoxed, Old, Insane, Harridan!
No Nancy Pelosi, it’s your abortion policies, which have led to high abortion rates of blacks and Latinos, that is about making America white again.
Bears repeating!
How does she figure that?
Gawd, the D party bosses are such LIARS
and SO Divisive
they’ll say or do anything to keep/get power, more and more power
they behave just like the brown shirts of the 1930’s (and of course their politics/rhetoric is getting more and more like the Nazis, too)
It won’t, but I would not object to it.
We have way too much “vibrancy”. Diversity is discord.
“It’s still a majority white country.”
Not for long. Watch how they’ll celebrate when we become a minority.
Oh yes Nutsy Nan.
And just what was the DemocRAT campaign slogan for 1868?
When did the demorcRAT party let black Americans on the floor of the convention? Or how about when did they allow Black Americans to become delegates for the democRAT nomination process?
Pelosi doesn’t realize how many blacks, Asians, Hispanics and others who are not white actually ARE American citizens.
Ms Pelosi, What Country is this? Why would you not want to know how many citizens there are in the country? Is it purely political on your part? It has to be doesn’t it?
Nan is afraid trump will make america sane again
Si senor.
They already demonstrated a number of times how they will be viciously intolerant and even genocidal toward the other race. Separate graduation ceremonies. Special aid and scholarships only for their race. Extra cost entertainment tickets for other race (recently withdrawn). Treatment of farmers in South Africa. Mau Maus. A long history.
When the dems get panicky, they dig out their white hoods and start jamming them on any conservative they can find.
“They want to make sure that people, certain people, are counted.
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Actual American citizens?
70%, Nancy Pants. And holding big, black, scary guns. :)
“Is she saying there are no white illegal aliens?”
There are indeed a number of Irish nationals illegally living in Massachusetts & NYC from what I’ve read.
TDS...he’s reduced her to publicly saying utterly foolish things like this.
Landslide in 2020 for Trump.
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