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[quote=Anonymous]An honest discussion...should Natural Born US Citizens have more rights than "Naturalized" US Citizens? Why or Why Not?

This spawns from Trump's goal to strip Naturalized US Citizens from their US Citizenship for criminal offenses.

I'm a Naturalized Citizen myself and it's not just Trump wanting to do this...countries in Europe are all going down the same route.

[url]https://baltimorechronicle.com/world/2025/04/27/europe-expands-citizenship-revocation-for-crimes-and-terrorism/[/url]

I'm a dual citizen of the US and a European country. I honestly do think that if a naturalized citizen does a horrific crime either in the US or the country I am from...that stripping the criminal of that citizenship should be on the table. Stripping them of citizenship does not necessarily mean deporting them. Just back to "green card" status - not eligible to vote...make them start all over to gain citizenship - work for it -- meaning no criminal activity for say 1 year in order to be eligible for citizenship. I don't think this is all that crazy.

The only crazy thing is the huge bureaucratic nightmare that it would entail. The principle behind it is sound, but the huge administrative cost this would entail is what IMHO would outweigh the benefit. Lack of cost benefit analysis.

Then there's the sound argument about addressing criminals who are natural born citizens - they get special treatment? It is indeed a slippery slope.[/quote]

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