The department is forcing naturalization on Russian diplomats’ children, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has said The US State Department is flouting both US federal law and diplomatic immunity in forcing American citizenship on children of Russian consular staff, with no option given to refuse, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an op-ed on Monday. These moves by the “deep state” are undermining US President Donald Trump’s unprecedented anti-immigration policy and his aim of ending birthright citizenship in the country, she said. “It’s absurd and violates every rule in the book, and delivers a blow to their own president,” Zakharova wrote. The US began the practice in 2023 under former President Joe Biden, “as if deliberately laying a mine under Trump in order to present him in the most ridiculous light,” she said, adding that neither federal laws nor diplomatic agreements have been amended since.…