Trump under fire for ‘racist’ attack on US congresswomenTrump faces re-election in November and has made restricting legal and illegal immigration a focus of his 2020 campaign. During his presidency, he has criticised the right to citizenship for any person born in the United States, which applies even to children born to tourists. In some cases, alleged operators and customers of companies promoting “birth tourism” in the United States have been charged with providing false information to immigration authorities in order to conceal plans to give birth in the United States. “It is absurd that the Trump administration is turning embassy employees into reproductive policemen,” Kerri Talbot, a director with the Immigration Hub, a Washington-based advocacy organisation, said on Thursday. But the agency said there were increasing reports of the practice from US embassies and consulates abroad.

Source: The Express Tribune January 23, 2020 16:18 UTC