Britain Strips More Than 100 Islamic State Fighters of Citizenship

[TomSea]

Britain Strips More Than 100 Islamic State Fighters of Citizenship

ROME —

Their home countries don’t want them back. Hundreds of foreign fighters who enlisted with Islamic State to fight in Syria and Iraq are being stripped of their citizenship and blocked from returning by Western governments.

Returning fighters are seen as a grim threat, the deadly legacy of a murderous movement being defeated and rolled back on the battlefield. Western intelligence officials say they are already over-stretched trying to monitor tens of thousands of suspected extremists who never left their home countries.

British officials say they have stripped more than 100 British fighters and brides of their citizenship, preventing them re-entering the country legally, according to British news reports. All those who have lost British citizenship are dual nationals. Under international law, governments can’t revoke someone’s citizenship if it would render them stateless.

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I'm sure mayor 'Jihad Allah hu Akbar' in London is fighting this with everything he has.

[dfwgator]

We need to start doing that here.

[Oceander]

We need to start doing that here.

Very difficult to do here. 

[TomSea]

This is the catch:

"Under international law, governments can’t revoke someone’s citizenship if it would render them stateless."

So, they probably won't intern such folks; though clearly, they should. They fought for ISIS apparently, so maybe they will.

[dfwgator]

This is the catch:

"Under international law, governments can’t revoke someone’s citizenship if it would render them stateless."

So, they probably won't intern such folks; though clearly, they should. They fought for ISIS apparently, so maybe they will.

Wasn't that why the Brits founded Australia?

[truth_seeker]

The US can change the law, and phuque international law.

Neither our Constitution and laws, nor international law are intended to be suicide pacts.

[Oceander]

The US can change the law, and phuque international law.

Neither our Constitution and laws, nor international law are intended to be suicide pacts.

You'll have to rewrite the Constitution then, because it's very hard to deprive a US citizen of citizenship, even a naturalized citizen.  See Maslenjuk v. United States.

[truth_seeker]

You'll have to rewrite the Constitution then, because it's very hard to deprive a US citizen of citizenship, even a naturalized citizen.  See Maslenjuk v. United States.

We just ought to try harder, then Or let them keep their citizenship, for life in Guantanamo

[The_Reader_David]

This is the catch:

"Under international law, governments can’t revoke someone’s citizenship if it would render them stateless."

So, they probably won't intern such folks; though clearly, they should. They fought for ISIS apparently, so maybe they will.

Well, that can be finessed, since even if no one recognizes it, they have a state:  the Daesh.  Why it even has the Arabic word for state in its name.