As he still tries to eliminate birthright citizenship in contravention of the US Constitution, Donald Dumb wants now to force Americans to give up any other citizenship they may hold alongside their US citizenship.
Children born of parents with different citizenships often keep by birthright the two citizenships of their parents. But Donald Dumb and his MAGA minions want to eliminate this. Those children born to one American parent and one foreign parent will have to choose and give up one of the two nationalities. If they choose the US citizenship, they will no longer have citizenship rights of their other parent's country, something immigrants generally prefer to avoid.
An American who marries someone from another country will be required to either give up his/her US citizenship and acquire that of their spouse, or keep his/her US citizenship while his/her spouse will be forces to give up theirs.
If adopted, the damage done to the US economy is huge. Dual citizens enjoy facilitations for undertaking business between their two countries of citizenship. If adopted, this measure will cause the US to lose millions of US citizens (which in all likelihood will be immigrants married to US citizens) who may decide to keep their original citizenship and give up on their American one. The social and economic disruptions this measure will cause to - by definition - a country of immigration are immesurable.
The objective is, again and again, to fight immigrants, isolate immigrants already here and make their lives as miserable as possible, prevent cross-cultural marriages, and ultimately concentrate power in the hands of the white supremacist nativist xeonophobes of Trump's MAGA. Out of their inborn ignorance and a feeling of inferiority vis-a-vis other cultures, these backward Americans fear foreigners because they are "different". They immediately and automatically suspect something sinister in any foreign invidual.
And the worst aspect of his is that it is an immigrant Republican - an enslaved Uncle Tom from Colombia - who is pushing for this measure. This is what happens when immigrants, who are made to feel inferior or inadequate and less "American" by their white masters. They try to compensate for their inadequacy as new Americans by loudly pretending to be more American than the Americans, more royalist than the king himself.
The immigrant republican senator from Ohio, Bernie Moreno, plans to introduce legislation on Monday that would require any U.S. citizen who has foreign citizenship to choose between the two countries. It would also require that if a U.S. citizen seeks a foreign citizenship in the future, that person would effectively give up their U.S. citizenship.
Moreno was born in Colombia as Bernardo. He grew up in the US after his parents moved from Colombia to the US (illegally?) and was harassed and discriminated again because of his name, looks and foreign accent by his schoolmates and his white "friends". So to make the harassment and discrimination end, he renounced his Colombian citizenship just to prove that he is more American and so hoped to be less discriminated and changed his name to Bernie.
His language is a kiss-ass of gigantic proportions typical of an Uncle Tom immigrant trying to prove he's more American than white Americans: "It was an honor to pledge an Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America and only to the United States of America. Being an American citizen is an honor and a privilege".
Sen. Bernardo "Bernie" Moreno from Colombia wants to end dual citizenship in the U.S. in a bid to require "exclusive allegiance" from citizens.
Moreno’s bill fits into the broader fabric of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration in the U.S., and it isn’t the first time that a lawmaker has sought to undo dual-citizenship laws in the country.
Current law allows for Americans to hold citizenship both at home and abroad and does not require that a person choose one allegiance over the other. Moreno’s legislation, dubbed the Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025, is billed as a measure that would bolster the interests of the U.S. out of concern that holding dual citizenship creates "conflicts of interest and divided loyalties." This bill fails to see the enormous damage to the economy and culture of the US by cutting off ties between the US and countries around the world.
It would give Americans with dual citizenship one year after its enactment to either write to the secretary of state for a renunciation of their foreign citizenship or notify DHS of their intent to renounce their U.S. citizenship.
If a person does not comply with the change within the year, they will automatically be considered to have relinquished their U.S. citizenship.
And for those who do give up their U.S. citizenship, voluntarily or involuntarily, the DHS and attorney general will be required to ensure that those people are "appropriately recorded in Federal systems and treated as an alien for purposes of the immigration laws," according to the bill text.
There have been previous attempts to dismantle the country’s dual-citizenship law, most recently in the House, where Republican lawmakers have moved to ensure that their colleagues either disclose any foreign citizenship on their statement of candidacy or completely prevent anyone with a dual citizenship from serving in Congress.
Moreno’s push may also face issues in court. The Supreme Court weighed in on the question of dual citizenship in the 1950s and has upheld the ruling ever since. But Donald Dumb's Supreme Court is a bunch of Trump lackeys and servants who may break with previous laws and precedents and grant Moreno his wish.
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