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BREAKING: President Trump has backed down on push for #CitizenshipQuestion on #2020Census & says he's issuing an executive order to do something that Commerce @SecretaryRoss has already directed @uscensusbureau to do -- compile existing gov't records on citizenship from agencies.
@SecretaryRoss @uscensusbureau 2. Back in June 2018, I reported on the @uscensusbureau trying to get access to naturalization data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, visa and passport data from the State Department, and records from the Social Security Administration👇
@SecretaryRoss @uscensusbureau 3. NEW: @TheJusticeDept spokesperson Kerri Kupec says the DOJ "will promptly inform the courts that the Government will not include a citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census.” 
@SecretaryRoss @uscensusbureau @TheJusticeDept 4. Standing to the right of President Trump today, silently, was Commerce @SecretaryRoss. He oversees @uscensusbureau, and in March 2018, he said he had directed bureau to "obtain as many additional Federal & state administrative records" on citizenship👇
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documentcloud.org/documents/4500…
@SecretaryRoss @uscensusbureau @TheJusticeDept 5. I'm waiting to see this new executive order President Trump announced, but as a reporter who has been covering the #CitizenshipQuestion legal battle from the very beginning, I didn't hear anything that signaled the Trump admin is doing anything new👇
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@SecretaryRoss @uscensusbureau @TheJusticeDept 6. Compiling existing government records ("Alternative C") on citizenship has been the recommendation of the @uscensusbureau's researchers during this entire saga👇
apps.npr.org/documents/docu…
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@SecretaryRoss @uscensusbureau @TheJusticeDept 7. @uscensusbureau officials wanted to discuss compiling existing government records with the Justice Department, which submitted the formal request for #CitizenshipQuestion
But then-AG Jeff Sessions directed the DOJ not to discuss that option w bureau👇
npr.org/2018/10/27/661…
But then-AG Jeff Sessions directed the DOJ not to discuss that option w bureau👇
npr.org/2018/10/27/661…
@SecretaryRoss @uscensusbureau @TheJusticeDept 8. Here is the draft memo by @uscensusbureau that I first reported on in June 2018 that confirmed bureau's efforts to collect citizenship records from @USCIS, @StateDept & @SocialSecurity👇
apps.npr.org/documents/docu…
apps.npr.org/documents/docu…
@SecretaryRoss @uscensusbureau @TheJusticeDept @USCIS @StateDept @SocialSecurity 9. In May, I reported on how the @uscensusbureau is poised to release anonymized citizenship information based on existing government records👇
@SecretaryRoss @uscensusbureau @TheJusticeDept @USCIS @StateDept @SocialSecurity 10. Here's how the @uscensusbureau's chief scientist answered a question @ArturoNALEO asked in May about those government records on citizenship👇
