These Tweets About Trump & Military Families Call Out A Controversial Policy

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These Tweets About Trump & Military Families Call Out A Controversial Policy
By: Shelby Black - Elite Daily - 8-29-19
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In 2019, there's no better place to air your frustrations than on social media. On Thursday, Aug. 29, a hashtag surfaced on Twitter calling out the Trump administration for yet another controversial policy. Just take a look at these tweets about Trump and military families and see for yourself.


On Aug. 29, the hashtag #TrumpHatesMilitaryFamilies surfaced on Twitter, which blasted the Trump administration over a policy change that takes away automatic American citizenship from children whose non-U.S. citizen parents are currently serving in the U.S. government and military overseas. Currently, individuals who are serving in the military abroad, but are not U.S.-born citizens, are still considered to be residing in the United States, and therefore any of their children who are born while they are residing abroad are eligible for automatic citizenship under the United States' jus soli citizenship laws.

However, a new policy change from the Trump administration will require parents of children serving in the military or other government sectors to formally apply for U.S. citizenship on behalf of their children before they turn 18, per Newsweek. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the change in a policy alert on Wednesday, Aug. 29. It is expected to take effect on Oct. 29. During a press call hosted by USCIS, officials said that this policy change will not impact birthright citizenship for residents. However, officials said, children who are adopted from overseas by U.S. citizens are not guaranteed automatic citizenship, as well as children of parents who were not citizens at the time of their children's birth, but have since been naturalized. Parents will now have to apply for their children's citizenship before the child turns 18; previously, if a parent gained citizenship and was living in the United States before a child turned 18, the child would also be granted citizenship.

Following news of this policy change, Twitter users immediately started calling out the Trump administration over the policy change, and penned a hashtag #TrumpHatesMilitaryFamilies that went viral over Twitter.

Several tweets in response to this is posted on site only.