Trump Fools Democrats Again, Is Still Winning Immigration Fight
-Brian Cates, July 16, 2019
meat of the matter, excerpt:
Those who think Trump is losing the immigration fight completely ignore what Trump and Barr actually said at that press conference.
Barr patiently explained there was no time left to put a citizenship question into the 2020 Census form. Here’s how he quite succinctly explained it:
“Because as the Supreme Court recognized, the defect in Secretary Ross’s decision was curable with a better record, the President asked me to work with Secretary Ross to determine whether there remained any viable path for including a citizenship question on the 2020 Census. I did so. In my view, the government has ample justification to inquire about citizenship status on the census and could plainly provide rationales for doing so that would satisfy the Supreme Court. There is thus 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 claim in the three ongoing district court cases. In addition, there are injunctions currently in place that forbid adding the question. There is simply no way to litigate these issues and obtain relief from the current injunctions in time to implement any new decision, without jeopardizing our ability to carry out the census itself, which we are not going to do. So, as a practical matter, the Supreme Court’s decision closed all paths to adding the question to the 2020 decennial census. Put simply, the impediment was logistical, not legal. We simply cannot complete the litigation in time to carry out the census, including appeals.”
As Barr carefully elucidated, the choice the administration faced was either give up on having a 2020 census or find another way to count the number of illegal immigrants in the country. So he and Trump found another way—one that will be far more accurate in the long run and one that Democrats will be powerless to stop, because how could the federal government be prevented from consulting its own internal records at the direction of its chief executive?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-fools-democrats-again-is-still-winning-immigration-fight_3004440.html