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Terrorist Expatriation Act: Reformulating The Effort To Fight Citizen-Terrorists, Matthew Vesterdahl Jan 2011

Terrorist Expatriation Act: Reformulating The Effort To Fight Citizen-Terrorists, Matthew Vesterdahl

Matthew Vesterdahl

The United States government has the standing authority to take away a United States citizens’ citizenship for committing certain expatriating acts, codified in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. The Terrorist Expatriation Act (TEA) is a piece of legislation that proposes adding the joining of a terrorist organization, or engaging in or supporting hostilities against the United States, as an expatriating act. However, this legislation echoes a previous attempt, Section 501 of the so-called Patriot Act II, a never actually proposed draft of legislation that would have added similar language to the Immigration and Nationality Act and its list …