Mexico's Senate passes law to eliminate application deadline for Mexican dual citizenship

SJ Mercury News ^ | 3/26/03 | AP - Mexico City

[NormsRevenge]

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's Senate has passed a measure aimed at eliminating deadlines for Mexicans who live abroad to regain their Mexican citizenship, and allow them to continue to apply indefinitely for dual nationality.

A 1998 constitutional amendment allowed five years for Mexicans who had adopted another country's citizenship to apply to regain their Mexican passports, as dual nationals. That five-year deadline expired March 20, and only 67,000 people had applied.

[lakey]

Dual citizenship. Can one be loyal to two masters.....

[Tancredo Fan]

It's pretty obvious why that leech of a nation is doing this. Foreign nationals who do this should be stripped of their U.S. citizenship. Those devious Mexican officials are up to no good, as usual.

[henderson field]

Last year Mexican-"Americans" sent $10 billion back to Mexico.

[Tancredo Fan]

A good number of those barnacles are illegal aliens, too. Anyone who thinks those despicable sycophants are a boon to the economy should take a look at California and Arizona. Or Mexico, for that matter. California has more illegals than any other state. It should be rolling in dough, wouldn't you think?

[PRND21]

Foreign nationals who do this should be stripped of their U.S. citizenship.

Jews. Irish, etc., as well? Dual citizenship is not uncommon.

[Tancredo Fan]

All of 'em.

[Sabertooth]

There is an easy solution to this: Zero immigration from nations that offer dual citizenship. Not just Mexico, but Canada, Switzerland, etc.

The scam would stop in a hurry.

[madfly]

fyi

[4Freedom]

BTTT!

[junta]

mega bump

[RnMomof7]

We need to pass a law that dual citzenship can not be held here. How do you have a nation with such divided loyalities?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Official citizenship in some country other than Mexico will be needed in order to claim this benefit. A Mexican illegally residing in the USA is not going to meet this condition, unless he has wangled citizenship in yet some other country (where, Canada?)

[CIBvet]

Thanks for another ping.

Mexico is doing everything they can think of, to suck as much as possible out of the USA.