GOP Senator Sounds Alarm: Are Diplomats’ Children Illegally Receiving U.S. Citizenship?
A Republican senator is sounding the alarm on what he believes is a back-door citizenship scheme, demanding a federal investigation into whether thousands of children born to foreign diplomats have illegally obtained U.S. passports and Social Security numbers.In a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) said the practice violates the Constitution and poses national security risks.“We cannot allow [American citizenship] to be cheapened into a mere bureaucratic status to be usurped by diplomats and foreign functionaries who owe their allegiance to other countries,” Schmitt, Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, wrote.Citizens must be “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States, according to the Constitution. Schmitt argued that foreign diplomats, who remain under the jurisdiction of their home governments, fall outside that category, meaning their children are not entitled to birthright citizenship. Even the Supreme Court’s controversial Trump v. Barbara ruling, which preserved birthright...
By: dailywire.com
