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This woman married a Saudi because she was under the authority of her Saudi father in Saudi Arabia. Her mother had married a Saudi and returned with him to his country after her two daughters were born in the US making them American citizens.

The mother left Saudi Arabia years ago after begging the US to help in getting out her daughters who were AMERICAN CITIZENS. Now it is this daughter who is seeking to leave with HER children.

The State Department has been rightly castigated by Newt Gingrich for its slavish obesqueious toadying to the Saudis and the Arab world.

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That American mother made a choice to marry a Saudi citizen, she certainly must have understood there were certain consequences to her future children in doing that. We're not the only country with citizenship laws, the Saudis certainly have a right to decide a Saudi father gives his children his citizenship. Especially when that child is on Saudi soil. Sarah's children were born on Saudi soil, have a Saudi father, and in the eyes of the Saudis, Sarah herself is a Saudi. What right would the USA have in going over and removing those children by force from their country and from their father?