Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

French President Proposes Constitutional Amendment to Withdraw Citizenship from Dual Nationals

posted by n1 on Wednesday November 18 2015, @04:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the with-them-or-against-us dept.

MichaelDavidCrawford writes:

The Washington Post reports:

Hollande is expected to put forward a bill this week to extend a state of emergency for three months, enhancing police power to restrict freedom of movement and gatherings at public places.

At Versailles, he also proposed constitutional changes that would allow authorities to withdraw French citizenship from people with dual nationality, even if they were born in France, and to prevent French terrorism suspects from returning to France.

(Emphasis added.)

I feel this would be unproductive; among the problems Europe has long faced is that the children and even grandchildren of immigrants feel unwelcome in the nations of their birth: I understand there are some European countries in which birth does not convey citizenship. President Hollande's proposal would dramatically exacerbate the problem and so give rise to further terrorism.

Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
French President Proposes Constitutional Amendment to Withdraw Citizenship from Dual Nationals | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 73 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by davester666 on Wednesday November 18 2015, @05:06AM

    by davester666 (155) on Wednesday November 18 2015, @05:06AM (#264709)

    Only SOME terrorists are willing to die during their attacks. Namely, the dumb ones. The smarter ones are the 'planners', who don't voluntarily go off to die. If the person you are talking to says "I've got your back." it means they want you to stand between them and the 'enemy'.

    Anyway, I believe under international law, you can't strip a person of their only country of citizenship [so they become stateless].

    But it's stupid anyway, because the person is still a terrorist, and all you wind up doing is shipping them off to somewhere else where they will either be summarily executed [if you are lucky] or [more likely] set free in an state even less likely to be able to keep track of them and prevent them from taking part in more terrorist activities.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +2  
       Insightful=1, Informative=1, Total=2
    Extra 'Insightful' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   4  

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2015, @11:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2015, @11:03PM (#265134)

    you can't strip a person of their only country of citizenship

    Pas de problème: set aside [wikipedia.org] part of France's [wikipedia.org] territory, deem [wikipedia.org] it a separate country, grant citizenship [wikipedia.org] in the new "country [wikipedia.org]" to your undesirables [wikipedia.org], and they're now dual citizens, ready to lose their French citizenship and be exiled [wikipedia.org] to their new homeland. It's not such a novelty [wikipedia.org] for the French [wikipedia.org].