Mainstream media, Democrats, and #Resistance Twitter have united to eviscerate a change to citizenship policy regarding children of overseas-deployed military members. The only problem is, they're all reading the policy wrong.
US Citizenship and Immigration Services released an update to its policies on how citizenship is assigned to children of American citizens born overseas on Wednesday. The admittedly confusing document centered on the definition of the term 'residence' and how it figures in the transmission of citizenship from parents to child - a potentially thorny subject, given the Trump administration's occasional threat to do away with birthright citizenship.
Commentators pounced on the document, interpreting it to mean that children born to members of the US military stationed overseas would no longer receive automatic citizenship at birth. An avalanche of accusations followed - this was "gross disrespect for our troops and government workers," who would surely abandon their posts en masse at being so ill-treated.
Except... that wasn't what the policy said. NBC's Ken Dilanian - one of the first reporters to come out with a story - deleted his original tweet after it had been reposted dozens of times, and posted a correction.
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The takeaway: "This policy update does not deny citizenship to the children of US government employees or members of the military born abroad," he said in a statement tweeted by the USCIS. "This does NOT impact birthright citizenship."
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