Posted on 02/10/2022 12:21:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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“But a US citizen must always identify him/herself as a US citizen when interacting with US authorities.”
True, but that did not help my former coworker when he sought help from U.S. officials in Italy. He is a dual U.S.-Italian citizen, and he had entered Italy on his Italian passport. I agree with kabar that the U.S. authorities should have tried to provide some assistance, but he said they declined. It may have been that Italian law enforcement rebuffed in advance any U.S. intervention. Just speculation on my part. The incident was ten or so years ago.
Just think of how often Mexican officials (and officials of other countries) are demanding "hey,Texas,you have no right to execute our citizen"...and Texas responds: "wanna bet?".
I agree, for serious offenses. But my experience with unruly college students in study-abroad programs who got into relatively minor trouble (drunk and disorderly, property damage) with local law enforcement is that they were able to get charges reduced or dropped if our people (the study-abroad staff) or, in a few cases, the local U.S. consulate got involved. One exception was drug offenses, however. Some of our students mistakenly thought that some European countries (France and Germany, for example) turned a blind eye to public drug use or trafficking. The best we could arrange for those who got caught was immediate expulsion in lieu of arrest.
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