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    FACT CHECK: Has Citizenship Been A Standard Census Question?

    White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said a question about U.S. citizenship was included in every census from 1965 to 2000. Census history tells a more nuanced story.
    by Tamara Keith Mar 27, 2018 2 minutes
    The 1950 census form asked where respondents were born and whether they were naturalized.

    After a controversial decision by the Department of Commerce to add a question about U.S. citizenship to the 2020 census, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended the move as nothing out of the ordinary.

    The claim

    "This is a question that's been included in every census since 1965," Sanders said Tuesday, "with the exception of 2010, when it was removed."

    The short answer

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