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This bill would change federal immigration law to deny birthright citizenship to certain children born in the United States. Specifically, it would exclude from automatic citizenship at birth children whose parents are unlawfully present in the country, serving as foreign diplomats, or engaged in hostile activities against the United States. The bill's supporters argue this clarifies the original intent of the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause, which they say was never meant to grant citizenship to children of illegal immigrants or enemy combatants. The legislation would affect future births in the United States and would require determination of parental status at the time of a child's birth. The bill has no specified funding or implementation timeline in the text provided, though it would require government agencies to verify parental immigration status when processing birth certificates and citizenship documents.

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