Trump orders agencies to hand over citizenship information to Commerce

CNN ^ | July 11, 2019 | Kevin Liptak, Pamela Brown, Jim Acosta and Kaitlan Collins

[Innovative]

President Donald Trump retreated from his quest to add a question about US citizenship to the 2020 census on Thursday, instead asking government agencies to provide records that could determine a head-count of citizens without polling census-takers directly.

The turnaround comes after Trump repeatedly said he would continue fighting to insert the question despite a Supreme Court ruling that dealt a blow to the effort last month. It reflects legal reality intersecting with Trump's desire to bolster his image as an immigration hard-liner as he moves ahead with his 2020 reelection bid.

Instead of attempting to put the question on census forms, or adding it separately, Trump issued an executive order directing the Commerce Department to obtain citizenship data through means other than the census. That includes documents from the Department of Homeland Security, which houses citizenship and asylum services, and the Social Security Administration.

The order was signed and released to reporters late Thursday night.

[Pravious]

I think, in a way, Mexico IS paying for it - since they’re controlling the mobs right now.

Trump never engaged in the “lock her up” chants at the rallies, so he can’t be responsible if that doesn’t happen - nor did he ever say he was going to close the border, only that he WOULD if things didn’t get better (and they did).

On the ICE raids, though, he said, specifically, that he WOULD act in 7 days if those worthless assholes on Congress didn’t do something - and they ignored him, and it’s now past seven days.

So... President Trump, when do we start seeing our country CLEARED of the millions of illegal aliens who have permanently camped out here? What part of “illegal” is meaningless, and if it’s meaningless HERE, why should we-the-people really give a damn what our worthless government decrees as “illegal” or not?

[Segovia]

If I win,” Donald Trump threatened Hillary Clinton during Sunday night’s debate, “I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation.” And he left no ambiguity as to the intended result. “People have been, their lives have been destroyed for doing one fifth of what you have done. And it’s a disgrace.”

“You know,” Clinton later responded, “It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.” Trump couldn’t resist. “Because you would be in jail,” he broke in.——————

[Pravious]

I remember that moment, of course.

And, you know what? I wouldn’t be surprised if he DID tell Sessions to do that, and Sessions said “Sure! We’ll start a committee to investigate the possibility of exploring the procedures to do just that. Give me until 2029, if I don’t recuse myself in the meantime.”

My point was, I never saw Trump lead or even participate in the “lock her up” chants in his rallies. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.