JUST IN: Trump Vindicated On Birthright Citizenship After Would-Be Terrorists Exposed As Anchor Babies

Federal agents arrested two Chinese nationals who slipped into the U.S. illegally in the 1990s and stayed for decades after their asylum claims were rejected, the Department of Homeland Security said, after prosecutors charged their U.S.-born children in an alleged explosive-device plot at MacDill Air Force Base.

The parents, Qiu Qin Zou and Jia Zhang Zheng, entered the country illegally about three decades ago, were denied asylum and were ordered removed, according to DHS information first reported by The Daily Wire. Despite that, the couple remained in the United States for years and had two children while living here unlawfully: Ann Mary Zheng and Alen Zheng.

The development landed in the middle of a national fight over birthright citizenship as the Supreme Court weighs President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants and some temporary visitors.

Last week, the Justice Department charged 27-year-old Ann Zheng in connection with the alleged attempt to detonate an improvised explosive device at the MacDill Air Force Base Visitor’s Center in Tampa. Authorities believe her brother, Alen Zheng, is in China, and Ann Zheng was arrested when she returned to the United States from overseas, according to the report.