Trump admin considers requiring banks to collect citizenship information

Wall Street Journal: The Trump administration is weighing a possible executive order or other action that would require banks to collect citizenship information from customers, a new front in the administration’s crackdown on immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, according to people familiar with the matter.

The action could ultimately task banks with requesting an unprecedented new category of documents, such as a passport, from both new and existing customers who want to maintain a bank account in the U.S., the people said…