Mayorkas is pure evil.
I personally have dual citizenship, USA and the Republic of Ireland.
Who thinks that my loyalty is compromised?
A ban on dual citizenship is an attempt to address a problem that is highlighted by dual citizenship but dual citizenship is not the cause. My personal philosophy of government does not create a situation where would is good for one country is bad for another.
There are countries and corporations where allegiance is contrary to the best interests to the US.
I would be for elected government officials only holding one citizenship - American - but not government employees.
Know who is a government employee? Military. One of the paths to citizenship is through military service. Majority of military is American citizens. But not all.
Know who holds dual citizenships? Military children born abroad (including my son who is from Rota, Spain- I am from Florida and my ex is from Michigan). Embassy children born abroad. Ex-pats (citizens in the private sector) children born abroad. Mixed citizenship couples often have dual citizenship as do their children.
Know who holds citizenships other than American and works for the US government? Embassy workers, civilians working on military bases abroad or with U.S. military in war zones.
Requiring all gov employees to be American only, is too broad.
Absolutely necessary for the integrity of American interests.
Agree. But that 2) is likely too restrictive.
Either extend time, or drop altogether.
Define significant power. Why let a duel citizen work in government at all? Why are we whoring out citizenship and positions in our country to people who wonât claim America as their home exclusively?
What is the problem with a moratorium on ALL immigration and citizenship applications?
Western countries are becoming unrecognizable because there is no melting pot. America is becoming a vomit pot. We donât owe the 3rd world our country, lands, jobs, opportunities, welfare, or asylum.
Good point! The underlying presupposition in most of these opinions seems to be that dual citizens are âforeigners.â In my experience, the opposite is the case: Dual citizens are mostly American born, with no ties to any other country. Many are academics who spend 13 years in university and cannot find a professorship or research position at home, so they are forced to work abroad. Others work for multi-national corporations, or in foreign aid-type service professions. The usual case is that they leave America in their early 20âs, establish themselves abroad, and marry a foreign national. People like this canât just âchooseâ between countries; they are compelled to live abroad, where they naturally participate in the community life of their adopted country and form the usual human attachments. Taking out a second citizenship is a legal necessity which has no effect on either their national identity or their political loyalty. The situation is even more complicated when parents of minor children decide to move abroad.
Children in these cases have no rights; their parents are permitted to remove them from the country and force them to attend foreign schools, where they sometimes receive inappropriate education. This does not cause them to âbecome foreign,â but only serves to re-enforce their identity as Americans. Yet returning to America when they reach the age of majority is not so simple. Although they are American-born citizens, their access to public American universities is restricted in all sorts of complicated ways because unless their parents are members of the armed forces or government employees, they do not have in-state residency. But even if they decide to forgo higher education â which is hardly a viable option â or make an independent move back to the US to establish residency before applying, unless they take out citizenship in their adopted country, moving away would render them ineligible to return, meaning that they would have to choose, at the age of 18, to remain in America for life, not knowing whether they would be able to establish themselves there, and perhaps never seeing their parents, friends, or siblings again.
Finally, there are millions of loyal, American-born citizens currently living abroad who would love to return to the US but canât. They are âstrandedâ in foreign countries because they canât find employment at home, or their foreign credentials/work experience doesnât âcount.â Some become ill or disabled while living abroad and canât return home because there is no national health care system. Others intend to return when they retire, only to find that their adopted country will withhold their pension unless they remain there. Or they have married foreign nationals, and have children and grandchildren living abroad.
The myriad reasons why Americans find themselves living in abroad are almost never political, and their experiences enrich both countries. Rather than discriminating against them, regarding them as âtraitorsâ and forcing them to âchoose,â we should make it as easy as possible for Americans living in foreign countries to come and go, and welcome them when they return. As it is now, when forced to choose, they almost always renounce their American citizenship â not because they are âdisloyal,â but because, in the absence of perfect health and/or independent wealth, they have no other option, and attempting to enforce âloyaltyâ by curtailing their freedoms almost always has the opposite effect. What we really need to address is the problem of American-born minors who may, in the present system, be legally removed from their country against their will, denied an American education and access to their extended families, and, in many cases, effectively prevented from ever returning.