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To: mrsmith
It applies to native-born and naturalized citizens.

Do you have any examples of a native born American citizen being stripped of citizenship? I suppose there are laws that he can be if he fights for a foreign nation nation against the USA. But are there any examples? The common situation is an immigrant being stripped of the US citizenship he attained when he commits certain crimes

56 posted on 01/20/2012 3:39:30 PM PST by dennisw (A nation of sheep breeds a government of Democrat wolves!)
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To: dennisw

One since ‘Afroyim v. Rusk’ (When the court suddenly found congress lost the power to expatriate with the passage of the 14th Amendment).
Until then it was an accepted power of congress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vance_v._Terrazas

“Laurence J. Terrazas, was born in this country, the son of a Mexican citizen. He thus acquired at birth both United States and Mexican citizenship. In the fall of 1970, while a student in Monterrey, Mexico, and at the age of 22, appellee executed an application for a certificate of Mexican nationality...”

Don’t know the mother’s nationality.


57 posted on 01/20/2012 5:18:01 PM PST by mrsmith (What Tea Party nominee have you found for your House seat?)
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