UPDATE 12-Trump drops census citizenship question, vows to get data from government
(Adds legal groups reactions, U.S. attorney general quotes, context) WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump retreated on Thursday from adding a contentious question on citizenship to the 2020 census, but insisted he was not giving up his fight to count how many non-citizens are in the country and ordered government agencies to mine their databases. Trump's plan to add the question to the census hit a roadblock two weeks ago when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against his administration, which had said new data on ...
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