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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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Mexico, like US, extends birthright citizenship to children born on its soil

Vivianne Petit Frere's brightly painted Haitian restaurant sits blocks from the towering US border wall in Tijuana.

Called Lakou Lakay, the name in Haitian creole means "home," and it reflects her family's deepening roots in their adopted homeland where her granddaughter was born two years ago, automatically making her a Mexican citizen.

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