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Sen Eric Schmitt seeks to end birth tourism, revoke citizenship for babies of foreign diplomats

The Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump's attempt to clarify "birthright citizenship," but a Republican senator is taking up the mantle of Congress to rework the 14th Amendment, while calling for the Trump administration to revoke citizenship of babies born to foreign diplomats."The 14th Amendment confers American citizenship upon persons born in the United States while ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof,’" Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., wrote in a letter Thursday to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin."For more than a century, statutory law,...