特朗普政府因一项新的政策变化而受到抨击，该政策变化将导致一些为政府工作的美国公民的子女，包括美国军事人员，被剥夺自动获得美国公民身份的权利。
目前，父母在国外出生的孩子仍然被法律视为“居住在美国”，这允许父母为他们的孩子自动获得公民身份。
但根据新政策，从10月29日起，在美国武装部队和联邦政府其他部门海外服役的某些父母将被要求在他们的孩子满18岁之前代表他们的孩子正式申请美国公民身份。
必须申请公民身份的父母中有子女不是美国公民的父母，例如，包括非公民所生领养子女的美国父母，以及在子女出生时不是美国公民但后来已经入籍的父母。
尽管美国公民和移民服务局(USCIS)试图解释这一政策转变，将其作为协调联邦移民法和国务院程序的一种手段，但许多人指责特朗普政府扩大了强硬的移民镇压，以伤害在国外服务的军人家庭。
周三晚上，随着政策转变的消息在全国引起轩然大波，热门话题#特朗普家庭军事家庭在推特上广为流传。
“让我们重新叙述特朗普时代。他攻击金星家族。他向金星的孩子征税。现在，他想剥夺出生在海外的军人婴儿的自动美国公民身份，”作家格兰特·斯特恩周三晚上在推特上以标签写道。
“我来自一个军人家庭，”社交媒体用户托尼娅·西姆斯写道。“我爸爸和妈妈在美国空军服役。我爸爸在越南打仗，我妈妈给士兵打补丁。听说军人家庭在海外出生的孩子现在很难获得公民身份，我感到很难过。深信#胜过军事家庭。”
安德鲁·沃特曼写道:“想想这有多扭曲。”。“特朗普政府表示，当我们自己军队的现役成员在海外服役期间生育时，他们的孩子不被视为美国公民。这超越了种族主义。这太疯狂了。”
这一政策变化也引发了许多军事倡导组织的批评，美国外交服务协会主席埃里克·鲁宾断言，“无缘无故地强迫(成员)通过[的官僚障碍，只是为了让他们的孩子入籍成为美国公民，这对那些献身于为国家服务的人是一大伤害。”
鲁宾说:“坦率地说，这很难解释，也很令人担忧。”。
与此同时，美国现代军事协会执行董事安迪·布莱文抨击这一政策转变是“真正不合理的”和“特朗普-彭斯政府荒谬的改变”
布莱文斯说:“军事人员已经有足够的事情要处理，当他们驻扎在海外时，他们最不应该做的就是经受考验，确保他们的孩子是美国公民。”。“我们敦促国会采取行动，确保我们的军人家庭不会遭受鲁莽政府的后果。”
起初，美国移民局宣布的政策转变引发了广泛的混乱，一些人似乎将该规则解释为影响了政府派驻海外的大多数家庭，而另一些人则表示担心它会如何影响与生俱来的公民身份，这种身份允许任何在美国出生的人或其财产自动获得公民身份。
美国移民局代理局长肯·库奇内利在推特上强调，新规定“不影响与生俱来的公民身份”他说:“它只影响出生在美国境外的非美国公民的孩子。”
2011年6月15日，一名士兵在欢迎军队从阿富汗抵达科罗拉多州卡森堡的回家仪式上向国旗敬礼。特朗普政府宣布了一项新的政策转变，将剥夺一些驻扎在海外的军人子女自动获得公民身份的资格。
#TRUMPHATESMILITARYFAMILIES TRENDS AS ADMINISTRATION TO STRIP AUTOMATIC CITIZENSHIP RIGHT FROM SOME CHILDREN OF OVERSEAS TROOPS
The Trump administration has come under fire over a new policy change that will see some children of U.S. citizens working for the government that have been stationed abroad, including U.S. military personnel, stripped of their automatic right to American citizenship.
Presently, children born to parents stationed abroad are still legally deemed to be "residing in the United States," which allows the parents to acquire automatic citizenship for their children.
But under the new policy, as of October 29, certain parents serving overseas in the U.S. armed forces and with other branches of the federal government will be required to formally apply for U.S. citizenship on their children's behalf before their kids turn 18.
Among those who will have to apply for citizenship are parents whose children were not born as U.S. citizens, including for example, U.S. parents of adopted children born to non-citizens and parents who were not citizens at the time of their child's birth, but have since been naturalized.
While the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency has sought to explain away the policy shift as a means of reconciling federal immigration law with State Department procedures, many have accused the Trump administration of expanding its hard-line immigration crackdown to hurt military families serving the country abroad.
On Wednesday evening, the hashtag #TrumpHatesMilitaryFamilies had spread across Twitter as news of the policy shift sent shock waves across the country.
"Let us recount the Age of Trump. He attacks Gold Star families. He taxes Gold Star kids. Now, he wants to strip military babies of the automatic U.S. citizenship if they're born overseas," author Grant Stern wrote in a tweet on Wednesday night under the hashtag.
"I come from a military family," wrote social media user Tonya Sims. "My dad and mom served in the U.S. Airforce. My dad fought in Vietnam and my mom patched up soldiers. Sickened to hear that citizenship will now become difficult for kids born overseas to military families. Convinced that #TrumpHatesMilitaryFamilies."
"Just consider how twisted this is," wrote Andrew Wortman. "Trump's administration is saying that when active members of OUR OWN MILITARY give birth while they are deployed overseas, their children are not considered U.S. citizens. This goes beyond racism. It's lunacy."
The policy change has also sparked criticism from a number of military advocacy organizations, with American Foreign Service Association President Eric Rubin asserting that "forcing (members) to go [through] bureaucratic hurdles for no apparent reason, just to get their children naturalized as American citizens, does a great disservice to people who have dedicated their lives to serving their country."
"Frankly, it is hard to explain and deeply worrying," Rubin said.
Meanwhile, Modern Military Association of America Executive Director Andy Blevins slammed the policy shift as a "truly beyond reasonable" and "preposterous change by the Trump-Pence administration."
"Military members already have enough to deal with, and the last thing that they should have to do when stationed overseas is go through hoops to ensure their children are US citizens,"Blevins said. "We urge Congress to take action to ensure our military families don't suffer the consequences of a reckless administration."
Initially, the announcement of the policy shift issued by USCIS sparked widespread confusion, with some appearing to interpret the rule as impacting the majority of families stationed abroad by the government, while others expressed concerns over how it could affect birthright citizenship, which allows anyone born in the U.S. or its possessions to acquire automatic citizenship.
Acting USCIS Director Ken Cuccinelli took to Twitter to stress that the new rule "does NOT impact birthright citizenship." He said: "It only affects children who were born outside the US and were not US citizens."
A soldier salutes the flag during a welcome home ceremony for troops arriving from Afghanistan on June 15, 2011 to Fort Carson, Colorado. The Trump administration has announced a new policy shift that will see some children of military personnel stationed overseas stripped of their eligibility for automatic citizenship.
