American citizens fighting for ISIS and other groups can potentially return to the United States and apply their battlefield-acquired skills to carry out attacks against American targets. One way to inhibit such operatives from coming back to the United States to carry out such plans is to revoke their US citizenship. Title 8, Section 1481 of the U.S. Code lays out the various scenarios through which a US citizen could lose his/her citizenship. However, the existing law can be tweaked to include US citizens who join the ranks of non-state actors like ISIS or al Qaeda. Legation was introduced a few years ago, the Terrorist Expatriation Act of 2010, but it was never enabled! Please urge the White House and Congress to reintroduce and pass this legislation in order to protect the US.
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