Madam Speaker. our immigration law has long recognized that children born outside our country to an American father and a foreign national mother are U.S. citizens. Unfortunately. there remains a group of forgotten sons and daughters who. despite being born to American fathers. have been unfairly denied U.S. citizenship. These are the offspring of American servicemen and Asian women during the Vietnam and Korean Wars whose fathers did not personally take the steps of acknowledging paternity necessary to make their offspring citizens. But. the American government did that for them by acknowledging that their fathers were American citizens. Many of these individuals have lived through devastation during war. have been mistreated by their governments because of their mixed race. and many now live in the United States. but only as legal permanent residents.
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