A Misleading Take on the Trump Family’s Citizenship
by Angelo Fichera
Sep 05, 2019
3 minutes
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Viral social media posts wrongly suggest that President Donald Trump’s three eldest children are citizens only because of birthright citizenship.
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President Donald Trump’s first wife, Ivana, became a U.S. citizen in 1988 — years after the last of the couple’s three children, Eric, was born in 1984.
As the president has floated the idea of ending birthright citizenship for those born to parents in the U.S. illegally, social media users have homed in on that fact as an alleged instance of hypocrisy by Trump.
“Trump’s ex-wife Ivana wasn’t an American
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