Foreigner at Birth
Foreigner at Birth
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On the campaign trail, President Trump said that he wanted to revoke birthright citizenship for so-called “anchor babies,” aka the children of undocumented immigrants. Today, Latino USA looks at the story of a country where that actually happened: the Dominican Republic. After a court decision in 2013 that stripped citizenship from the children of Haitian immigrants, one young man embarks on a quest to get documented—in the country where he was born.