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Cruz to Introduce Bill to Stop Americans Who Join ISIS From Returning to United States
Cruz.Senate.gov ^
| September 5, 2014
| Senator Ted Cruz
Posted on 09/06/2014 10:15:56 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, announced today his intent to file the Expatriate Terrorist Act (E.T.A.) of 2014 as soon as the Senate is called back into session on Monday, September 8th.
“Americans who choose to go to Syria or Iraq to fight with vicious ISIS terrorists are party to a terrorist organization committing horrific acts of violence, including beheading innocent American journalists who they have captured,” said Sen. Cruz. “There can be no clearer renunciation of their citizenship in the United States, and we need to do everything we can to preempt any attempt on their part to re-enter our country and carry out further attacks on American civilians.”
The ETA amends an existing statute that provides certain actions by which a United States citizen renounces their citizenship to include becoming a member of, fighting for, or providing material assistance to a designated foreign terrorist organization that is working to attack the United States or its citizens. Provided the requirements of due process are observed, if a U.S. Citizen undertakes these acts with the intent of supplanting his U.S. Citizenship with loyalty to a terrorist organization, that person can be deemed to have forfeited their right to be a United States Citizen and return to the United States.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Syria; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cruz; egypt; iran; iraq; israel; jordan; kurdistan; lebanon; sinai; syria; tedcruz; texas; turkey; waronterror
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To: SoConPubbie; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; RitaOK; MountainDad; ...
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:16:25 AM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SoConPubbie
Amazing that such a law hasn’t been in effect before this.
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:17:38 AM PDT
by
txrefugee
To: SoConPubbie
Our “government” needs to get off its @$$, cancel their passports and put their names on the Terrorist watch list. They are terrorists.
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:19:03 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(America is not a refugee camp or woman's shelter for illegals! It's my home! !)
To: SoConPubbie
It’ll no sooner be passed than some left-wing federal judge will declare it null and void.
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:19:39 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
To: SoConPubbie
I’m in favor of letting them into the US, but only as an executed corpse on the way to the incinerator.
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:20:45 AM PDT
by
Objective Scrutator
(All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
To: SoConPubbie
If Cruz were president, ISIS would cease to exist.
To: FlingWingFlyer
and the Permanent NO FLY List
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:21:26 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: txrefugee
Any politician in Congress who doesn’t vote for this bill must be voted out of office, IMO. And, their names must be made public so all know who they are.
To: Objective Scrutator
Slathered in bacon fat? For that extra sizzle of course. From there to another famously hot location.
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:21:56 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
To: txrefugee
Actually I think there is a law that could be used. Just google “Loss of US citizenship” and any US consulate website will have it. Actively engaging in a fight against the USA is grounds for loss of citizenship.
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:22:05 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
To: SoConPubbie
They’ll just come over our southern border like the rest of the terrorists and other criminals.
But I don’t doubt that a law would be useful for other purposes, if done right.
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:25:52 AM PDT
by
mrsmel
(One Who Can See)
To: SoConPubbie
I don’t expect this to fly through. There are too many bureaucrats and politicians who hate the US as much as ISIS does.
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:27:59 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: SoConPubbie
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:29:38 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: SoConPubbie
Cruz can introduce this bill but dear Harry will forget to bring it up for a vote. (Right?)
To: SoConPubbie
This will put the Democrats in an awkward position in the run up to the November elections!
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:31:45 AM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
(They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
To: FlingWingFlyer
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:31:51 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: SoConPubbie
Sorry, but the proposed legislation doesn’t go far enough. Any bill offered should also include provisions that strip citizenship from those who aid materially as well as financially ALL terrorist groups. Yes CAIR, I’m including you as well as the rest of the Sharia Lobby when I make this demand.
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:33:09 AM PDT
by
SCHROLL
To: mrsmel
“Theyll just come over our southern border like the rest of the terrorists and other criminals.”
And Ted Cruz will be there with Glenn Beck to welcome them with soccer balls and teddy bears.
Yeah, I don’t see this bill doing too much.
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:35:59 AM PDT
by
Cato in PA
(Resist!)
To: Cato in PA
Yes. Let’s all just quit.
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posted on
09/06/2014 10:42:21 AM PDT
by
stanne
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