EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Eric Schmitt Urges Trump Admin To Do Something About Diplomats’ Kids Getting Illegal Citizenship Docs

Republican Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt urged the executive branch to investigate illegal grants of citizenship to foreign diplomats’ children on Thursday, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

In a letter addressed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, Schmitt detailed that foreign diplomats are having children during their missions and then claiming birthright citizenship for their children.

“Neither the Constitution nor federal statutory law grants foreign diplomats’ children birthright citizenship. Yet public reporting indicates that potentially thousands of foreign diplomats’ children have been given citizenship documentation,” Schmitt wrote in the letter that was first obtained by the DCNF. “Foreign diplomats’ children illegally procuring citizenship degrades the meaning of American citizenship, undermines our sovereignty, and threatens our national security.”

“I therefore urge both of your agencies to take immediate action to investigate the extent of illegal grants of citizenship documentation to foreign diplomats’ children, implement policies and procedures to prevent it from occurring in the future, identify the individuals who have illegally procured citizenship documentation in this manner, and revoke those individuals’ illegally procured citizenship documentation,” he added.

A 2017 report by the Korea Times found that more than 100 children of diplomats from the Republic of Korea have acquired birthright citizenship, Schmitt cited in his letter.