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Dems block Cruz bill to strip U.S. citizenship from Islamic State defectors
The Washington Times ^ | 18 Sep 2014 | David Sherfinski

Posted on 09/18/2014 5:08:33 PM PDT by mandaladon

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To: mandaladon

Instead, put a hold on their passports and only allow passage back to the USA right into custody and charged with treason.


41 posted on 09/18/2014 11:34:34 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: Graewoulf

Heck, in a year the outcome could already be written.


42 posted on 09/19/2014 4:24:45 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: mandaladon
Anyone who fights against the U.S. (by that very act) has renounce their U.S. citizenship. Senator Cruz's bill would only make it official.
43 posted on 09/19/2014 7:43:31 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: 2001convSVT

By all means, charge any American supporting ISIS with treason. Treason is clearly defined in the Constitution. However, the Constitution PROHIBITS the revocation of citizenship! Citizenship can ONLY be renounced by the individuals in question. We know who these traitors are, so why not arrest them upon reentry to the US?

I’ve voted for Cruz and support him on most issues, but he is dead wrong on this one. The Constitution prohibits stripping of citizenship for good reason!


44 posted on 09/19/2014 9:47:53 AM PDT by MeatshieldActual (Texan Independence, now and forever!)
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To: mandaladon
I do think it is a bad precedent. Citizenship should mean something and not be something the state can just strip. What about Americans that joined the Commintern in the 1930s to fight against Franco? IMHO, they were traitors fighting for our communist enemies.

On the other hand, if we are talking about citizens who were made citizens after the fact (not born a citizen), I think a case can be made that they did not obtain citizenship in good faith.

45 posted on 09/19/2014 10:36:06 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: Diogenesis

Interesting...look at the date on the poster. It is a future date several weeks out.

What is the real meaning behind the cartoon?


46 posted on 09/19/2014 10:37:36 AM PDT by EBH (And the angel poured out his cup...)
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To: mandaladon; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; LdSentinal; ...

I hope a similar measure has been introduced in the House of Representatives.


47 posted on 09/20/2014 1:06:06 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: mandaladon

idiots. Canada did it.


48 posted on 09/20/2014 6:44:26 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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Canadian government begins invalidating passports of citizens who have left to join extremist groups
49 posted on 09/20/2014 6:47:27 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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"The action means Canadian fighters in Syria and Iraq may effectively be stranded there. Their passports are no longer valid and therefore cannot be used to return to Canada. Nor could they be used to travel elsewhere."

huge Boo Hoo. So sad.

Why we are not following suit is beyond me.

50 posted on 09/20/2014 6:49:30 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Let them come home and shoot them right after they get off the plane.


51 posted on 09/20/2014 10:07:01 PM PDT by Impy (Think for yourself)
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To: Lazamataz

But...

Thanks for playing the game of Politics(TM) !

Where you present all sorts of bills, vote up and down, get to enjoy a get out of jail scott free card (Senate players only) !

You get to watch the sheeple scramble around like little ants and squeel at each other !

What crazy thing can you say next, to whip up the sheeple into a tizzy - and earn points with the Masters of the Game(TM).

And either lever the sheeple pulls... they lose !

Careful.. don’t run afoul of the Masters... or you’ll have a one-way flight out a 14th-floor window !

Batteries not included, some assembly required.


53 posted on 09/21/2014 10:46:36 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: PieterCasparzen

Good point. Learned this lesson when I was 12. My Mom took me to a Town Council meeting and explained the ‘meaningless vote’ move, I saw it live.


54 posted on 09/22/2014 3:26:23 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

When the Constitution doesn’t work any more, one must revert to the Declaration of Independence.


55 posted on 09/22/2014 3:37:33 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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REFERENCE Federal outreach to Muslim-American communities is a pillar of Obama counter-terrorism strategy
Washington post | 5/25/2013 | ap / FR Posted by tobyhill

Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, US government officials and Muslims in Boston called each other to offer assistance. These calls were the fruits of years of cultivating such relationships in an effort to ultimately prevent the very type of attack Boston experienced April 15....

Representatives from the US Departments of Justice and Homeland Security called to offer support to Muslim communities......just in case THEY suffered backlash or threats. (more on FR).

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Obama admin unilaterally changes law to allow immigrants
with 'limited' terror contact into US
The Daily Caller
| 2/5/14 / FR Posted by Nachum

The Obama administration has issued new exemptions to a law that bars certain asylum-seekers and refugees who provided “limited material support” to terrorists who are believed to pose no threat from the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security and the State Department published the new exemptions Wednesday in the Federal Register to narrow a ban in the Immigration and Nationality Act excluding refugees and asylum seekers who had provided limited material support, no matter how minor, to terrorists.

“These exemptions cover five kinds of limited material support that have adversely and unfairly affected refugees and asylum seekers with no tangible connection to terrorism: material support that was insignificant in amount or provided incidentally in the course of everyday social, commercial, family or humanitarian interactions, or under significant pressure,” a DHS official explained to The Daily Caller.

Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry signed the exemptions. DHS contends that the law change is “commonsense” and that immigration procedures will remain the same in other respects. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...

56 posted on 09/22/2014 8:33:07 AM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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