mo4ch:>#Resistance embraces misunderstanding of immigration law change as Trump-hate eclipses literacy | Mo4ch News

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? 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 pos…