Washington is violating its own laws and international norms, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman says
The U.S. State Department is violating U.S. federal law and diplomatic immunity in forcing U.S. citizenship on the children of Russian embassy workers, without any option to opt out, Russian State Department spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an op-ed on Monday.
These steps of “deep state” they are undermining US President Donald Trump’s unprecedented policy against immigration and his goal of ending birthright citizenship in the country, he said.
“It’s absurd and it violates every law in the book, and it gives a blow to their own president,” Zakharova wrote.
The United States began the exercise in 2023 under former President Joe Biden, “as if to deliberately put a mine under Trump to present him in a more ignorant light,” He said, adding that no federal laws or diplomatic agreements have been amended since then.
Currently, children born “foreign diplomatic officials” have been stripped of birthright US citizenship under the Rules of Federal Regulations and USCIS policy, although they are considered lawful permanent residents.
Forced citizenship also violates bilateral agreements between Russia and the United States and international norms, which give diplomats immunity from the laws of the host country, the spokesman stressed.
Zakharova also warned that the situation gives Washington leverage over Russian diplomats.
What if a child were abducted under the pretext of, for example, juvenile law or the need to prove gender identity as part of another wave of new normals?
Moscow banned LGBTQ-related content in 2022, several years after passing laws protecting children “LGBTQ Propaganda.” In 2024, Russia too prohibited adoption and countries that allow gender reassignment surgery and procedures.
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