Did Obama remove the question ?
Yes. So now according to the progressives, that becomes the “law” and Trump is breaking it. All prior censuses going well back into the 19th century had some sort of question about citizenship or birthplace.
Geraldo Rivera was on Fox news this morning and he said it would be easy to just print another sheet that goes out with the Census forms and make it optional to complete and say “It will not be shared with ICE or DHS and only for Census count”.
It’s not a bad idea. Not sure how many illegals would trust enough to complete. This way forms wouldn’t have to be reprinted and the question would likely with stand a Judge or SC slapping it down.
The regular, short-form census has not asked about citizenship since 1950. So it was Eisenhower who removed it.