Pretty straightforward. Her father was a foreign diplomat, thus she is not a natural-born citizen.
Why can't she go back to Yemen, I wonder?
Pretty straightforward. Her father was a foreign diplomat, thus she is not a natural-born citizen.
Why can't she go back to Yemen, I wonder?
IF he was here in his official capacity as a diplomat, it is true. That "IF" is the issue. If he had been a diplomat, but no longer was when she was born, though....
[FONT=&]Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Hoda Muthana, the young woman who is[/FONT] trying to come home[FONT=&] after she fled Alabama for ISIS, is not a U.S. Citizen, according to a report from [/FONT]ABC News.[FONT=&]Pompeo said Muthana has no “legal basis” to claim American citizenship, the AP reported.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]“Ms. Hoda Muthana is not a U.S. citizen and will not be admitted into the United States,” Pompeo said. “She does not have any legal basis, no valid U.S. passport, no right to a passport nor any visa to travel to the United States.”[/FONT]
[FONT=&]An attorney for the woman's family, Hassan Shibly, said the administration's position is based on a "complicated" interpretation of the law involving her father.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]“The Trump administration continues its attempts to wrongfully strip citizens of their citizenship,” Shibly told AL.com. “Hoda Muthana had a valid US passport and is a citizen. She was born in Hackensack, NJ in October 1994, months after her father stopped being a diplomat.”[/FONT]
This is wonderful...Trump has made America so great even ISIS bride's who fled the Obama years want to come back......
(That's for you Kut...)
I'm not sure either - I know she wants to come back and be prosecuted...
...but denying entry would be the quick way to solve this.
Does prosecuting her serve a public interest? Is she correct in her assertion that it could help prevent this sort of thing happening in the future?
Laws against murder don't seem to prevent murders.
But, in a land that (allegedly) cherishes the rule of law, we should employ such rule of law to deny her citizenship if she's a traitor.
If she's not a traitor, then she should be punished for any non-traitorous violations of the law that she committed, if any.
Having babies from different fathers who do bad things isn't illegal, from what I can tell.
Her assertion is she wants to tell a story (from an American prison) and explain how going ISIS is bad... mkay.Laws against murder don't seem to prevent murders.
But, in a land that (allegedly) cherishes the rule of law, we should employ such rule of law to deny her citizenship if she's a traitor.
If she's not a traitor, then she should be punished for any non-traitorous violations of the law that she committed, if any.
Having babies from different fathers who do bad things isn't illegal, from what I can tell.
Abandoning your home country, marrying 3 different ISIS members, and repeatedly calling for the death of Americans on social media is about as prima facie as it gets for adhering to enemies and giving them aid and comfort.
I'm pretty good with the administration's stance on this. And the best part is, anything Trump does that is south of a drone strike should be just fine with most people.
Thanks, Obama.
...Still not sure why we're hung up on not letting her in. Back in the old days, we might extraordinarily rendition her to someplace at least.
Kinda seems like we're getting more snowflakish as time goes by.