Ted Cruz Proposes a Bill To Revoke Citizenship From Americans

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is starting off a process for Congress to pass legislation that would get the citizenship of any American who attempts to get in the Islamic State or other terrorist groups revoked.Cruz is certain that prohibiting the entering of people from terrorist-stricken countries into the U.S. only solves the problem partially, and that the federal government also should worry about U.S. citizens who might attempt to act the same.“If an American citizen travels abroad and joins a terrorist group waging jihad on America, attempting to murder innocent Americans, this legislation would strip that individual of their U.S. citizenship, so that we would not have terrorists returning to America using U.S. passports,” Cruz stated for the Washington Examiner.Plenty of Americans have attempted to enter the Islamic State in these couple of years, according to Cruz.He stated that another 124 U.S. citizens or green card holders have went overseas to enter other jihadist groups in the years since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.“This should be an idea that even Senate Democrats can support given that Hillary Clinton, when she was in the Senate, supported very similar legislation,” he stated.

Prior changes of the bill have attracted opposition, who think it would give the federal government broadened powers to revoke citizenship with no process ahead.

With Cruz’s bill, anyone who got their citizenship revoked over alleged terrorist ties would get 60 days to ask for a due process hearing in order for alteration of the decision to be in order.

“The awesome and horrible power of being able to take away the citizenship of an American citizen would be turned over to an unnamed bureaucrat,” Christopher Anders, senior legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington legislative office, stated for USA Today last year. “It’s a highly unconstitutional bill. If it were to become law, I’m sure the Supreme Court would not let it stand.”

“This legislation is a common sense step to recognize that people can [wage] war against America in more ways than one,” he stated. “You don’t need to be a member of a nation-state military to be a terrorist at war with America.”

Trump being the one seated in the Oval Office could higher the odds that the legislation passes this Congress. More so, an ex Cruz staffer, Victoria Coates, now is employed for the White House National Security Council.

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