Trump drops his loss on the Democrats…
Saying they don’t want to know the numbers…
Trump clothed his comments on this in patriotic terms…
The LAW and the Constitution requires a count of EVERYBODY here…
That count will determine US House districts….
PERIOD….
It’s NOT about a search for illegals….
President Donald Trump said he’s abandoned a plan to add a question about citizenship to the decennial census after a defeat at the Supreme Court, and will instead order government agencies to help the Commerce Department count the number of non-citizens in the country.
“We must have a reliable count of how many citizens, non-citizens and illegal aliens are in our country,” Trump said in a statement at the White House. Adding the question to the census was “delayed by meritless litigation,” he said, accusing Democrats of attempting to “conceal the number of illegal aliens in our midst.”
Instead of pursuing the matter further in court, Trump said he would direct every federal agency to provide records on the population’s citizenship status to the Commerce Department.
Cities, counties, states and immigrant-rights groups have challenged the Trump administration’s effort to add a citizenship question to the census, fearing that the query could scare off immigrants and non-citizens from responding to the once-a-decade questionnaire. That would dilute the political power of areas home to many such people, as the results of the census are used to re-draw congressional districts and allocate billions of dollars in federal spending.
Trump’s political opponents say that’s the point, accusing the president of trying to use the census to bolster the political power of white voters and the Republican Party.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday that Trump sought to “make America white again.”
“They want to make sure that people, certain people, are counted,” Pelosi said at a press conference on election security. “It’s really disgraceful and it’s not what our founders had in mind.”…