Dual Citizenship – Many people have obtained American citizenship…but are also Mexican citizens.

We don’t think they love America.

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For the mystery – loving readers, this information will become important soon.

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The below excerpt courtesy of The Social Contract Press Winter 2002/2003

Undue Influence
The government of Mexico and U.S.
immigration policies

Allan Wall is an American citizen who lives in
Mexico. Many of his articles and columns are
at www.FRONTPAGEMAG.com

Dual Citizenship
By Allan Wall

Dual citizenship is another aspect of today’s immigration assimilation situation that the American political class prefers not to deal with. There are already millions of U.S. citizens who are also citizens of other nations. In the case of Mexico, dual citizenship has the potential to become a major problem.

The number of those already eligible numbers in the millions, dual citizenship is easy to achieve, the Mexican government now encourages it, and the U.S. government has no objections.

The State Department certainly is not concerned about dual citizenship: “Under U.S. Department of State
policy, being a national of another country is not, in and of its elf, an expatriating act.” In the oath of allegiance, however, a new American citizen states: “I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, to whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen…”

The clear terms of the naturalization oath argue that U.S. citizenship, whatever today’s State Department might say, is not meant to be shared with that of another nation.

A “rank absurdity” is what Theodore Roosevelt called “dual citizenship,” which, beside its enormous potential for conflicts of interest, is incompatible with the concept of equal justice under the law.

Until quite recently, Mexico felt the same way, rejecting out of hand the concept of dual nationality. As
part of the sea change which took place during the Zedillo administration, however, a move to change the
law was made in 1997 (taking effect in 1998). Articles 30, 32, and 37 of the Mexican Constitution were
amended to make dual nationality possible, so that now a Mexican emigrant would not lose his Mexican citizenship even if he became an American citizen.

Certainly dual citizenship existed before this constitutional change. There have been double citizens of
the United States and Mexico for some time. One reason is the desirability of U.S. citizenship as a means to an
end, and Mexican families have been known to take their pregnant women to the U.S. to give birth, so that under the current interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment the child would be an American citizen.

Nevertheless, dual citizenship was still not recognized by the Mexican government until the amendments of 1997. The intention of the amendments was, according to the Mexican Department of Legislative
Documentation, to prevent Mexicans living in the United States from losing their Mexican nationality if they
became American citizens, so that “those who opt for a non-Mexican nationality can fully express their rights in their place of residence…”

After the new law took effect, one of those who announced his attention to apply was Oscar de la Hoya
(The Siglo, October 20, 1999), American boxer, born in the U.S. of Mexican ancestry.

In de la Hoya’s statement explaining why he desired to be a citizen of Mexico, the reader can detect the strange ambivalence that would inspire a successful and wealthy American to adopt a foreign nationality:
I have always said, I am proud of my Mexican blood and although I was born in East LA, my
family is from Mexico and it would be an honor to be considered Mexican because I
have grown up and I have felt like a Mexican in every way. To be a Mexican citizen is
something I have always wanted to be. I respect this country a lot because it gave me
many opportunities, but the people who support me are Mexican…
(The boxer’s bus is emblazoned with both a Mexican and an American flag.)

At the time of the amendments, a distinction was made by some apologists between Mexican “nationality”
and Mexican “citizenship.” The argument was that an American citizen could obtain Mexican nationality and
not Mexican citizenship, and that the former does not give the indiviudal the right to vote in Mexico.

This explanation may be reassuring to some, but is of little value. The real distinction between Mexican
nationality and citizenship is that citizenship constitutionally refers to those of Mexican nationality
who have arrived at the age of 18 and are in full exercise of their rights as Mexicans, of which voting is the prime example. (Mexican Constitution, Articles 34, 35, and 36).

The plain fact is that there is nothing in either Mexican law or American law that can prevent dual
citizens from voting in both countries. According to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, “Mexican citizens living in
Mexico who are also dual nationals enjoy the same voting rights as other Mexicans.” An article in Mexico’s Universal stated that one of the advantages of double nationality was “to exercise the right to the vote.”

Already there has been some dual voting by dual citizens who have voted in both countries, but it’s not yet
a widespread phenomenon. It could become one though if Mexican electoral law is changed; there are proposals to amend Mexican election law enabling millions of Mexicans living in the United States to vote.
According to one calculation, if the law were amended today, there would already be eleven million
individuals currently residing in the U.S. automatically eligible to vote in Mexican elections. This figure of eleven million of necessity includes some who are also American citizens. (see Conapo population figures,
above).

An attendant proposal for Mexicans in the U.S. to vote is to designate electoral districts in the United
States. California, for example, might have seats in the Mexican Congress, specifically representing Mexicans
(including Mexican-Americans ) residing in the state of California.