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Birthright citizenship is back in the legislative queue.
Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, sent a formal letter Thursday to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, demanding an investigation into what he called improper grants of citizenship documents to children of accredited foreign diplomats.
The letter arrived two days after Schmitt introduced the American Citizenship Act, a bill that would limit birthright citizenship to children of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents.
The legal argument in the letter The 14th Amendment extends citizenship to persons born in the United States while "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." Federal policy, backed by U.S.
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