“I believe these American terrorists have voluntarily renounced their citizenship upon taking an oath to a foreign terrorist organization (FTO),” said King. “That is why Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and I have introduced the Expatriate Terrorist Act (ETA). ETA will fill in these statutory holes that harbor the rights of American terrorists by providing the Secretary of State the legal authority to revoke a terrorist’s passport. ETA will also make it clear that if a national of the U.S., by birth or naturalization, chooses to take an oath or pledge allegiance to a designated foreign terrorist organization; that individual has affirmatively renounced American citizenship. Such individuals who engage in hostilities or commit acts of terror against the United States are demonstrating they no longer uphold their pledge to the United States. Therefore, if a U.S. citizen were to join an FTO, and bomb a school in Israel (after pledging their allegiance to Hamas) they would be eligible to lose their U.S. citizenship, and subsequently have their passport revoked.”
I have some concern that a government can decide if someone has renounced their citizenship. In theory, it sounds reasonable, but I fear how it could be practiced. Maybe the rest of you trust government more than I do.
@Mediator-I don’t trust the government at all, but I trust the terrorist even less.
Constitutional Rights seem important to me. What is gained by this legislation? What does it cost?
In my opinion, taking away citizenship is a very serious matter, not something Steve King, etal. should be determining based just on his belief that acting against the government is automatically denouncing citizenship.
I don’t think it’s wise to give more automatic decision making power to the government. Next thing you know, they’ll be getting rid of civil-rights commissions. 😉
@mediator-I am sorry but it seems that constitutional rights means less and less any more. It is the same way with citizenship. When people can come into our country illegally and get citizenship for being a criminal we have already lost our rights.
@mediator-Now, that being said, I am not really a King fan. He does a lot of goofy things in his far right views.
This one makes good sense to me. They should give up their citizenship when they leave. They are nothing but savages.
JOBS JOBS JOBS – PAYING THE SAME AS PUBLIC SERVANTS NOT THE CHEEEEZY 8.00 FLIP A BURGER.
Make sense to me.