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  • Who Are the Americans Stuck in Afghanistan?

    08/29/2021 11:17:32 PM PDT · by MikelTackNailer · 14 replies
    The Tennessee Star ^ | August 29, 2021 | Christopher Roach
    Having met a number of global traveler-types, I was surprised some years ago when I heard American citizenship described in very unromantic, mercantile terms. The most common expression was, “It’s a good passport to have.” For blood and soil Americans, citizenship is something entirely different. After all, two-thirds of Americans do not even have a passport. Rather, this nation is who we are. It is mom, apple pie, Main Street, the English language, our ancestors, our only political loyalty, and our destiny. Unlike globe-trotting “citizens of the world,” we are not just passing through. A similarly crass view of citizenship...
  • Rising Canadian athlete switches citizenship, hoping to compete for China in Tokyo Olympics

    04/01/2021 9:19:48 AM PDT · by Loyalist · 13 replies
    National Post ^ | April 1, 2021 | Tom Blackwell
    Nina Schultz was just 19 years old when the world realized it had a serious new contender in the heptathlon.The Westminster, B.C. native captured a silver medal for Canada at the last Commonwealth Games, finishing behind only the U.K.’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson, now the international number one.But three years later, Schultz is a Canadian track-and-field luminary no more.At a moment of bitter tensions between the two countries, she has taken on Chinese citizenship and hopes to compete for her adopted country in this year’s Tokyo Olympics.The reasons, Schultz has said, are deeply personal and seem to predate the current turmoil in...
  • Rising Canadian athlete switches citizenship, hoping to compete for China in Tokyo Olympics

    04/01/2021 9:19:48 AM PDT · by Loyalist · 7 replies
    National Post ^ | April 1, 2021 | Tom Blackwell
    <p>Nina Schultz was just 19 years old when the world realized it had a serious new contender in the heptathlon.</p><p>The Westminster, B.C. native captured a silver medal for Canada at the last Commonwealth Games, finishing behind only the U.K.’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson, now the international number one.</p>
  • Dual U.S.-Mexican Citizen Arrested For Violations Of The Kingpin Act

    02/28/2020 7:01:42 PM PST · by ransomnote · 8 replies
    justice.gov ^ | February 27, 2020 | DOJ
    Defendant Alleged to Have Prohibited Financial Transactions Related to Drug Cartel A dual U.S.-Mexican citizen had her initial appearance in federal court in the District of Columbia Wednesday on charges related to her alleged involvement in five business entities designated by the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) as providing material support to the international narcotics trafficking activities of the Mexican narcotics trafficking organization known as the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Special Agent in Charge William Bodner of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Los Angeles Field Division made the announcement.Jessica Johanna Oseguera Gonzalez,...
  • Fiona Hill, Alexander Vindman and the problem of dual citizenship

    11/22/2019 8:02:05 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 28 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 11/22/2019 | Monica Showalter
    Like a lot of Americans, I've had longtime and close friends renounce me for voting for President Trump in 2016. I can think of two, and yes, it was baffling and hurtful. It's also natural to wonder why such a consequential thing might happen, whether there was some common denominator. What could be behind the intensity of that anti-Trump sentiment that would cause such dear friends to throw away twenty-plus years' friendships as if they never happened? I can think of three or four more who haven't renounced, but have the same anti-Trump intensity. Some things I noticed in all of them and...
  • Mexico makes arrests in massacre of American women, children: minister

    11/11/2019 7:03:39 PM PST · by yesthatjallen · 9 replies
    AP ^ | 11 11 2019 | Staff
    Mexico has made an unspecified number of arrests over last week’s massacre of three women and six children of dual U.S-Mexican nationality in the north of the country, Security Minister Alfonso Durazo said on Monday. “There have been arrests, but it’s not up to us to give information,” Durazo told reporters in Mexico City. The women and children from families of U.S. Mormon origin who settled in Mexico decades ago were killed last Monday on a remote dirt road in the state of Sonora by suspected drug cartel gunmen, sparking outrage and condemnation in the United States. Durazo said that...
  • Horror: Brutal Cartels Massacre American Mothers and Children in Northern Mexico

    11/05/2019 4:59:56 AM PST · by Kaslin · 92 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | November 5, 2019 | Katie Pavlich
    Drug cartels ambushed and murdered a number of Americans, mothers and their infant children, in northern Mexico yesterday.  A vehicle belonging to members of a Mormon family and traveling north through the Mexican state of Sonora was riddled with bullets and burned. They were reportedly on their way to a wedding in the United States as part of a family caravan. Rhonita Maria LeBaron was killed, along side her twin babies and two other children. Christina Langford Johnson, Dawna Langford and two of her children were also murdered in a separate attack. During and after the ambush, other children escaped...
  • MAP: Dual Citizenship Around the World [2018]

    03/17/2019 9:39:12 AM PDT · by BlackAdderess · 31 replies
    ovMe Hub ^ | Feb. 9, 2018 | HARRIET CANN
    Many countries in the last year are rethinking their policies on dual citizenship, which would greatly help those immigrants moving abroad and naturalised citizens. There are benefits for have two or more passports that extend beyond the UK/EU line at borders; travelling and working in more than one country is the way forward.
  • Trump administration seeks to transfer unnamed enemy combatant within 72 hours

    04/17/2018 3:33:47 PM PDT · by aMorePerfectUnion · 30 replies
    The Hill ^ | 4/17/18
    The Trump administration intends to transfer a U.S. citizen held in Iraq as an enemy combatant for over six months to an unnamed foreign country within 72 hours, it revealed in a court filing on Tuesday afternoon. The detainee has declined to consent to the transfer, according to the government, and a hearing has been set for Thursday morning. The government did not name the country, but a U.S. official confirmed to The Hill that officials are seeking to transfer him to Saudi Arabia. The detainee, known publicly only as John Doe, also holds a citizenship there, The Hill has...
  • Palestinian court jails U.S.-Palestinian for life for Jerusalem land sale

    12/31/2018 6:34:40 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 22 replies
    Al-Reuters ^ | December 31, 2018 6:57 AM | Reporting by Ali Sawafta, Nidal al-Mughrab, Jeffrey Heller
    A Palestinian court sentenced an American-Palestinian on Monday to life imprisonment for violating a ban on selling land to Israelis, judiciary officials said. The U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, called in November for dual national Issam Akel to be released, saying his suspected crime was “selling land to a Jew” and his incarceration violated American values. Akel was accused of attempting to sell a property in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem without the permission of his business partners or Palestinian authorities. Palestinian officials have not publicly identified the intended buyer. The Higher Offences Court in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank,...
  • Australia flags removing citizenship from home-grown radicals

    11/21/2018 10:36:39 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 10 replies
    Al-Reuters ^ | November 22, 2018 12:04 AM | Colin Packham
    Australian nationals convicted of terror offenses would be stripped of their citizenship if the government believes they are entitled to apply for residency from another country, Prime Minister Scott Morrison proposed on Thursday. Australia, a staunch U.S. ally that sent troops to Afghanistan and Iraq, has seen a spate of attacks by home-grown militants in recent months, including a stabbing attack in the country’s second largest city less than two weeks ago. Morrison proposed allowing the government to weaken current constraints that permit terror convicts to be stripped of their Australian citizenship only if they are already dual nations and...
  • Caught In Custody Fight, 5-Year-Old Boy Sent To Ireland

    07/11/2012 5:04:48 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 39 replies
    chicago.cbslocal.com ^ | July 10, 2012 | no byline
    Updated 07/10/12 – 9:06 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — A 5-year-old Orland Park boy at the center of an international custody battle was sent to Ireland on Tuesday to live with his father, even though he was born in the U.S. and has lived most of his life here. Jack Redmond was born in south suburban Blue Island, and has spent all but a few months of his life in the United States. His mother, Mary Redmond, says the Chicago area is all the boy has ever known. His school, his doctor, his dentist, his friends — they’re all here. Custody...
  • Australian government: Constitution can't be taken literally [dual citizens elected]

    10/09/2017 11:47:59 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 18 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Oct 10, 2017 12:33 AM EDT | Rod McGuirk
    A government lawyer told Australia’s High Court on Tuesday that it could not take a constitutional ban on dual citizens being elected to Parliament literally when deciding the fates of seven lawmakers. Solicitor-General Stephen Donaghue told the High Court judges that five of the lawmakers, including three government ministers, should not be disqualified from Parliament for breaching the constitution because they did not voluntarily acquire or retain citizenship of another country. The hearing began on Tuesday and is expected to take three days. Under Section 44 (i) of the 116-year-old constitution, “a subject or citizen of a foreign power” is...
  • [Germany’s] Vice-Chancellor calls to offer young Brits dual citizenship

    07/04/2016 12:52:07 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 26 replies
    TheLocal.de ^ | 04 Jul 2016 14:55 GMT+02:00 | (DPA/The Local)
    The German vice-Chancellor said on Saturday that Germany needs to support young Brits after the UK voted to leave the EU. European countries need to think about what they can offer young British people living in their countries, Sigmar Gabriel said, after the Brexit vote left many facing an uncertain future, Spiegel reports. Despite the UK voting by a narrow majority to leave the European Union, young people voted largely for the Remain camp. “They knew better than the snobs in the British elite that this was about their future,” Gabriel said at meeting of his Social Democratic Party (SPD)...
  • Russia Quietly Strips Emigres of Dual Citizenship

    06/14/2016 7:08:13 PM PDT · by BlackAdderess · 35 replies
    Forward ^ | June 12, 2016 | Julie Masis
    Tens of thousands of Russian dual nationals are being effectively stripped of their Russian citizenship via a quiet policy of Russian consulates worldwide refusing to renew their passports. Under new regulations the consulates are enforcing, anyone seeking to renew a passport who was not registered as living in Russia on February 6, 1992, will be rejected, even if his or her passport had been renewed on previous occasions. It is unclear just how many people this new policy will affect. But it will certainly apply to thousands of Jews who emigrated from Russia after July 1, 1991 — the date...
  • Cruz swipes Trump in AIPAC speech

    03/21/2016 7:38:36 PM PDT · by BlackFemaleArmyColonel · 199 replies
    The Washington Examiner ^ | 3/21/2016 | GABBY MORRONGIELLO
    Ted Cruz on Monday mocked Donald Trump's grasp of history and promised not to be neutral in a negotiation between Israel and Palestinians, something Trump has said he would do if elected president. At his speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Cruz started by highlighting a mistake Trump made during his own speech just minutes earlier. "Perhaps to the surprise of the previous speaker, Palestine has not existed since 1948," Cruz said, drawing mixed laughter and applause from the crowd.
  • With an Orthodox focus, Ted Cruz reaches out to Jewish donors and voters

    03/21/2016 11:40:56 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 18 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | March 21, 2016 | Katie Zezima
    When Ted Cruz headlined a recent fundraising luncheon in New York, the Baptist senator was presented with a gift: a menorah. "It was very heartfelt," Mica Mosbacher, a Cruz supporter who was there, said of the feelings on both sides. "He strikes a chord with the Jewish community." Cruz, the son of a pastor, has spent several years aggressively courting the support of Jewish voters, particularly those who are Orthodox. Touting his conservative views on Israel, his opposition to the Iran nuclear deal and his adherence to traditional values, Cruz has found a conservative niche in the Orthodox community in...
  • BUFFALO BILL’S DEFUNCT: WHY TED CRUZ WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT

    03/14/2016 3:37:31 PM PDT · by Extremely Extreme Extremist · 65 replies
    SPECTATOR.ORG ^ | 14 MARCH 2016 | ESTHER GOLDBERG
    For the conservative movement, Ted Cruz was going to be a savior. The anointed one. His father told us that Ted was “anointed…to bring the spoils of war to the Priests.” The congregation of the New Beginnings Church in Irving, Texas, laid hands on Ted and he was invited to speak in tongues. And the high priests of National Review solemnly said “amen.” Like Cummings’ Buffalo Bill, Ted would “ride a watersmooth-silver stallion” and break Donald Trump. Because the self-styled conservative movement had pronounced Ted to be an authentic “constitutionalist,” and nothing else mattered.
  • Ted Cruz Cancels Mississippi Visit

    03/07/2016 9:04:24 AM PST · by COUNTrecount · 153 replies
    Breitbart ^ | March 7, 2016 | Michelle Fields
    Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has cancelled his visit to Mississippi, according to state Sen. Chris McDaniel. “Unfortunately, I just received a call from the national campaign chairman,” McDaniel wrote on his Facebook page. “The event at JCJC has been cancelled. Ted Cruz will not be in Mississippi tomorrow, as he evidently does not feel well.
  • Rick Santorum: Ted Cruz Is Losing Because He’s Not 'A Huckabee Or Santorum'

    03/05/2016 11:23:51 AM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 55 replies
    The Huffington Post's Huffpost Queer Voices ^ | March 4, 2016 | Michelangelo Signorile, Editor-at-Large, HuffPost Queer Voices
    Here's why Santorum thinks Cruz is falling behind in the race. In an interview with me on SiriusXM Progress at the Conservative Political Action Conference, former senator Rick Santorum said he believes that Sen. Ted Cruz isn't doing better in the GOP presidential primary and caucus races because Cruz "is not the kind of conservative that Mike Huckabee and I were." Santorum says he believes Cruz isn't conservative enough when it comes to social issues. This, even though Cruz has loudly promoted anti-LGBT religious liberty laws, spoken at a virulently anti-gay conference last fall (which Rachel Maddow dubbed a "'kill...