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The Economic Times
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Trump birthright curbs may prompt US passport checks on parents

The U.S. State Department has proposed requiring parents applying for passports for their children to provide proof ​of their own citizenship or immigration status as ​part of President Donald Trump's latest effort to limit birthright citizenship.

The draft guidance, reviewed by Reuters, is ​the first detailed look at how the State Department could enforce Trump's August 6 executive order targeting what it calls "birth tourism" and broadening historical exceptions to birthright citizenship.

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