Posted on 04/05/2010 12:41:04 AM PDT by Yosemitest
I looked for this for several hours. The only thing I found was this:
Losing your citizenship
For a natural-born citizen, losing your citizenship is actually quite difficult. The law prohibits the taking of your citizenship against your will, but there are certain actions a citizen can take which are assumed to be a free-will decision that constitutes a voluntary renunciation of the citizenship.
Moving to another country for an extended period of time does not constitute an act that presumes renunciation. Neither does taking a routine-level job with a foreign government. This stand is quite different from U.S. policy of the past, where even being naturalized in another nation could be seen as renunciation. The sections of the law that pertained to losing ones nationality for many of these cases was found at 8 USC 1482 and related sections.
The U.S. Code does, however, see some acts as creating the possibility of a loss of nationality. When you lose your U.S. nationality, you are no longer under the protection or jurisdiction of the United States. When the United States considers you to no longer be of U.S. nationality, it in effect considers you to no longer be a citizen. Note that these are things you can do that may force you to lose your citizenship. The law also says that these acts must be voluntary and with the intent of losing U.S. citizenship. The ways to lose citizenship are detailed in 8 USC 1481:
I WISH IT WERE TRUE!
There are many socalists I'd sign a petition to "REVOKE THEIR U.S. CITIZENSHIP".
There ought'a be a law...!!!
Interesting.
Ping for later.
Nonsense.
I’d be EXTREMELY surprised that you could lose your citizenship by a popularity contest. And if that was the case, it should be unconstitutional. NO ONE can take your citizenship from you.
Indonesia doesn’t allow dual citizenship and Obama was listed on his school record there as a citizen of that country. So how was he a U.S. citizen, too?
While I generally agree with you, there is one case that I would make for revoking of citizenship. In the case where a person has been convicted of either treason or sedition.
Sorry, not following your train of thought. I’m not sure who or what you were responding to.
That exists, and it would be argued that by committing treason or sedition you voluntarily surrendered your citizenship.
Having people simply decide you were no longer a citizen without actions on your part is ludicrous, in my opinion.
I believe we are in agreement then.
There are many reasons I'd revoke citizenship,
Now do you understand, and do you have anything to add?
Obviously not. There would be enough signatures just from DU to get the entire republican party kicked out of the country.
Dont forget that what ever tools and powers you put into the hands of government, they will be used by both sides of the political spectrum.
Would you trust Hillary to decide that you were not being true to the Constitution and that you would then have your citizenship taken away. Miss “FBI files” herself?
Government like fire is a tool to be feared, because in the wrong hands it can be turned against you.
“And if that was the case, it should be unconstitutional.”
Even the most popular presidents have at least 50,000 citizens who don’t like what they are doing or would prefer someone else in office. It would make no sense that 50,000 citizens could achieve something that requires a majority of the House and two-thirds of the Senate to achieve. If this were possible, every election would be followed by an immediate effort to have the newly elected president stripped of his citizenship and deported.
If that were true then the liberals would have Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove out of the country by sundown.
Oh no, you can't say that! If the US Law is not subservient to those foreign laws (Indonesia and the UK) then how do the birthers justify the "dual citizenship means not an NBC" line of thought?
If that was the sole standard, we'd have to expel more than half of congress!
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