U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released fourth-quarter fiscal year (FY) 2021 reports offering a snapshot of statistics for the entire fiscal year.
act, saying that citizenship data needed to be collected for that. and the chief began to realize that that rationale was invented and it mattered. so in the end he decided that the contrived rationale, and contrived is his word, actually matter to the bottom line vote for secretary ross, invalidating it as he did in june. so it was from april to june that this all unfolded. and it recalled in some way what the chief had done in 2012 when he voted with the four liberals in a much more surprising manner to uphold president obama s affordable care act. so twice we ve had these cases go down to the wire, and chief justice john roberts, who is otherwise a very reliable conservative, casting this vote. that s right, appointed by george w. bush. that s right. and you think of the fanfare that went into that appointment and that confirmation and being such a young chief justice who is clearly going to serve an important role for years and
two years. harris: i want to bring in mike gonzalez, senior fellow at the heritage foundation covering synthesis and identity politics. we might have to break away for news happening on capitol hill. but let s get to the point of how this is or is not different from things that already exist. that some of the criticism for the president. you just at an executive order, and agencies are already doing what you said. hi, harris. right, it is a retreat. an unfortunate one. it would have been better to have the question in the census, the citizenship data would have been much better, more complete. there s no way that gathering the information from the agencies can make up for having the question on the census. harris: when you say a retreat, why do you read it that way? because he could have fought this. he is known as a fighter. he does fight. he did fight the issue a long time. it s true that the judges were against him. the left was very well-organized
immediately thrown them back into court. he says he will get the citizenship data but it is not going to be a question on the sensors. senator jack reed cut my democratic colleague says i m concerned the damage has been d. he s poisoned the well to the point where many people may not be scared to participate in ine senses. they say he did not want people to cooperate and now he s brought that to fruition. i m sorry, that is complete and utter nonsense. i like jack reed. he s a friend and a colleague. he could not be more wrong with that. i disagree with every word of that sentence. there is nothing about the idea of collecting data on who is a citizen or who isn t that is going to jail people, that is going to keep people away from a census, especially when that question is not even ask. i wish the question weren t being asked, i m sure the president wishes the question we being asked as well. we have the supreme court unfortunately to thank or to blame for the fact that it isn t be