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The Fox News link is short on detail. Sarah Sanders stated last year that the citizenship question had been on every census until it was removed in 2010.

Well, she was right but the media jokers accused her of making a bald-faced lie and painted her as a liar for days after.

0f course they failed to properly research the history.

Here is a synopsis:

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Citizenship is a normal thing to include in a major government survey, hence why virtually all major government surveys do. The census has since 1820.

1820
The first time the census asked about citizenship status was in 1820, which is actually before the census even introduced individual-level questions about age and sex (before 1850, all questions focused on the head of household, with other household members usually not named).

The 1820 question asked about “foreigners not naturalized,” so non-citizens. But that is certainly in the realm of a citizenship inquiry.

1830-1840-1850-1860
Place-of-birth questions were added, asking where people were born. That format repeated in 1860. To ask where you are born is a form of citizenship inquiry.

1870
In 1870, the census asked a citizenship question. All emancipated slaves were counted as “naturalized citizens,” as the Fourteenth Amendment had extended them citizenship. Indeed, estimating the effects of abolishing slavery was the key purpose of the 1870 citizenship question.

1880-1890 No citizenship related questions! Time to celebrate with lefties, no?

1900-1910-1920-1930-1940-1950
Modern citizenship question: anyone born in the United States was counted as a citizen, including emancipated former slaves, while people not born in the United States but naturalized were naturalized citizens, and everyone else non-citizens. That question persisted until 1950.

1960-1970
The Census form was too long, too hard to administer; included questions about migration, income, education, race, sex, age, housing, citizenship, birthplace, fertility, mortality risks, disability, and many other factors. Getting everybody to respond to this incredibly long document was increasingly hard. The 1960 census dropped some questions, and merged the formerly separate Census of Population and Census of Housing into one form. This format persisted until 1970.

1980-1990-2000
The form was still too long to conveniently administer to the whole population and lacked sufficient detail for many important questions about the population. The Census Bureau made a decisive choice: there would be two different census forms.

About 80 percent of people would get a “short form” with basic questions: age, sex, race, household structure, housing tenure; 20 percent of the population would get a “long form” which asked more detailed questions including a question about citizenship.

So in 1980, 1990, and 2000, the census long form asked about citizenship. It’s simply false to say that no census since 1950 has asked about citizenship: long-form recipients did not fill out short-form censuses. 0ne out of five Americans filled out the long form. It was a large enough statistical sample to establish a baseline for all Americans.

2010 the citizenship question was REMOVED BY RAHM EMANUEL. Now why would he do that?

2020 The citizenship question has been RESTORED. But Democrats and their lefty judges are trying to block its restoration. Now why would they do that?