Cruz in push to revoke citizenship from Americans who join Islamic State.
By JOEL GEHRKE.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is renewing a push for Congress to pass legislation that would
revoke the citizenship of any American who tries to join the Islamic State or other terrorist
groups.
Cruz thinks that banning people from terrorist-stricken countries from entering the U.S. only deals
with half of the problem, and that the federal government also needs to worry about U.S.
citizens who may try the same thing.
"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 told the Washington Examiner.
Hundreds of Americans have tried to join the Islamic State in recent years, according to
Cruz.
He said another 124 U.S. citizens or green card holders have traveled overseas to join
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 said.
Previous iterations of the bill have drawn opposition from some civil libertarians, who
worry it would give the federal government expanded powers to revoke citizenship without
due process.
Under Cruz's bill, anyone who lost their citizenship over alleged terrorist ties would have 60
days to request a due process hearing to challenge the decision.
"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, told 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."
Cruz's team maintains that's unfair, because his bill � which is being introduced in
the House by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa � uses the same process to revoke citizenship from
terrorists that the government has used since 1926 to revoke citizenship from Americans
who join foreign armies at war with the United States.
"This legislation is a common sense step to recognize that people can [wage] war against
America in more ways than one," he said.
"You don't need to be a member of a nation-state military to be a terrorist at war with America."
Trump's presence in the Oval Office could increase the odds that the legislation passes
this Congress.
Additionally, a former Cruz staffer, Victoria Coates, now works for the White House National
Security Council.
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