Children born in the United States to foreign diplomats assigned to Washington’s Embassy Row and elsewhere in the country are wrongfully getting Social Security cards — and potentially benefits — taking advantage of the “citizenship clause” that makes kids born here Americans, according to a new report.
While the Social Security Administration knows the children of any diplomat shouldn’t get a Social Security number at birth, like those of legal and illegal immigrants, it admits that it is happening, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.
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