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by schoen 4240 days ago
I think the parent commenter knew that, but assumed that the original commenter doesn't currently live in the U.S. If that's the case, getting U.S. citizenship for their descendents could require a more difficult and expensive trip to give birth inside the U.S.
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Yes, exactly:

> our descendants will also have tri-citizenship in perpetuity

is probably wrong. If the descendants never reside in the US, they won't be able to pass on the citizenship to their own children unless they traveled to the US just to give birth.