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The story of the census appears in the gospel of Luke, which was written around 100 CE and edited for a while afterwards.
It places Jesus' birth during the census of Quirinius, which happened in 6 CE.
That's flatly contradicted by the earlier gospel of Matthew, which has Jesus being born during the time of Herod the great who died in 1CE.
There's no historical evidence that Roman censuses required people to go to the town they were born in; it'd be such a big disruption that it seems fairly implausible. It's more likely that the story about the census was made up by early Christians who were trying to edit details of the story to make Jesus fulfill more prophecies.