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And this forces i.c.e., which is an agency with limited resources, to focus on this law-abiding population as opposed to using their resources to go after people who are here illegally and who are also engaged in criminal conduct. i know where the i.c.e. agents would rather be and it would be focusing on criminals. sooner or later that failure of priorities in this administration will come home when we see someone who is here illegal engaged in criminal activity, not sought after because they re going after low-risk people. to the extent you commented on the idea that this is meant whether it s a citizenship question or it s the signaling of these raids, it is all meant to send a signal to anybody who is in the united states undocumented that we are coming for you. despite the setback on the citizenship question today, is donald trump succeeding on this front? he s certainly building support making up his base. this was an issue president
All requested records regarding the number of citizens and noncitizens in our country. they must furnish all legally accessible records in their possession immediately. trump made today s announcement after running into several legal road blocks. after he spoke, he asked his attorney general to back him up, which barr did. thank you, mr. president. congratulations on today s executive order. the supreme court correctly recognized that it would be entirely appropriate to include citizenship questions on the census. it nevertheless held that the commerce department did not adequately explain its decisions for doing so on the 2020 census. there is no question that a new decision to add the question would ultimately survive legal review. the problem is that any new decision would be subject to immediate challenge as a new
Question about citizenship on the 2020 census. this reversal came just days before i.c.e. agents are expected to follow through with trump s orders to round up thousands of undocumented people for deportation. early this morning there was reporting the president might have been ready to announce an executive order to add that citizenship question to the census, but this evening in a rose garden appearance with commerce secretary wilbur ross and attorney general bill barr, trump told the nation he was abandon that go effort. he tried to make it sound like a change in direction. we are pursuing a new option to assure a complete and timely count of the noncitizen population. i am he or she 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. they must furnish all legally
From this infighting he s had with some of the other democrats and kind of get the race back to where he had hoped it would be the entire way, which is looking away from them, looking straight at trump and taking the fight to trump. he clearly has identified foreign policy as a weakness for the president. he talked about president trump s relationship with kim jong-un and how he s, you know, really mangled a lot of alliances that this country has been in for many decades. he feels like he can be on with an equal playing field with the president of the united states when he talks about foreign policy. you make the point it s not always going to be the best thing to yolk himself to. there were things in the obama administration people are critical of, including some democrats. the red line in syria, for example, what was done in libya. he was supposed to be the chief tan in the white house, so he s going to be held to accountant for things that didn t go well in terms of foreign policy,