Posted on 08/10/2006 7:25:32 AM PDT by Pokey78
If he LOVES the USA (as he said), why did he let his passport expire from a country HE LOVES?
Sounds like he wants it both ways. He wants to be treated as an American, but he didn't go through the proper procedure to keep up his American passport.
He wants to live his life as if it isn't important to keep his American status current -- until he wants to enter the U.S. Then he says -- Opppps.
WTF should I care?
Does he have extra one-way tickets (send Sheehan with him)?
I agree with you.
Fine, Boris. Go. Don't let the door hit you on the backside on the way out, you ingrate.
"If he LOVED America- he would recognize that the "passport" issue is there to PROTECT AMERICA- for starters"
Explain? How is America endangered by allowing him to use his perfectly valid British passport? If he renounces his citizenship, why does it then become safe to allow him to use the same British passport again?
"Also- he would not be writing a public claim of wanting a divorce form America over THIS ONE ISSUE!"
He doesn't claim to 'want' a divorce, it is the only option which will allow him to use his British passport as a British citizen. If this was his desired outcome, I doubt Boris would have gone to the trouble of writing an article about it.
Boris is, believe it or not, a Conservative MP. He really seems to like himself.
He's got a pretty high opinion of himself. Good bye Boris.
I respect your opinion but disagree... yes some bureaucratic mechanisms are moronic but immigration rules / regulations are created for our safety among other things. The immigration official was doing his job yet Boris expecgts him to violate his integrety, break the rule -law- and get himself fired? If Boris doesn't like it there are other ways of getting one's point across or causing change rather than whining in a newspaper article.
My impression and I may be mistaken is that Boris has previously entered and departed the US using a British issued passport and that this requirement is relatively new, (most likely about five years old) the fact that he can renounce his US citizenship and have apparently NO problem entering makes the rule and my understanding of it at this time fairly ridiculous..
The way I read the piece is that it was not an ICE employee, or even a British immigration and/or customs person, it was a Continental Airlines employee.
I'm thinking that the author is overreacting to a bureaucratic foul up.
Since the author is apparently a British citizen and member of parliament, it probably would've been better if he'd contacted the State Department to arrange his travel plans through to U.S., rather than just showing up.
It sucks that he had to go through the rigamarole that he had to, but giving up his U.S. citizenship seems drastic.
I suspect that he ran afoul of an attempt by some bureaucratically minded people to keep better track of people entering on visas. It doesn't make much sense when you think about it, but many government rules don't make much sense when you think about it. Kind of like trying to keep track of homeless people by requiring them to keep a post office box or some form of permanent address at which they can be reached.
I probably wouldn't like this guy, but I do have to wonder why the U.S. would make a British person, no matter where he was born, use a U.S. passport?
Interesting article guys. Seems he hasn’t suffered personally for giving up his US Citizenship though. I find it interesting that you feel he deserves to have all this hatred and scorn heaped upon him because he feels that he should be a full citizen of the country he has lived in for almost all his life, and that anybody who choses to or feels pride in a country other than the US must clearly be an idiot or a pinko. Still, at least he’s not a hypocrite eh?
There was a troll rant posted last week that complained about how hard it was to renounce ones citizenship. In fact I've heard similar comments from liberals lately.Not at all. American citizenship is remarkably hard to get rid of. For example I know of an American who took on Japanese citizenship. Japan doesn't allow dual citizenship after 21. When he did the American consulate *refused to take his American passport*. They told him to put it in a drawer somewhere in case he reconsidered(which would have gotten him in trouble with the Japanese). He had to petition the state department or something really silly to finally renounce his citizenship.I think the game is to convince us that we're held hostage behind the iron curtain of America. In reality the biggest impediment to renouncing one's citizenship is getting another country to accept you. The simple fact is that the state department isn't going to allow millions of liberals renounce their citizenship only to have them remain in this country.
I've done some reading on it so I can show whiny liberals how to go about "escaping concentration camp Amerikkka". So far there have been no takers.
We hate the idea of anchor babies, but when a British citizen wants to end his anchor baby status, we throw a fit? This guy shouldn’t have to renounce anything because he shouldn’t be a citizen just because he dropped on our soil. Those born to non-citizens on our soil should have to apply for citizenship just like any other alien. I’m guessing this guy would not have applied, and I have no problem with that.
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