[CTRL] Dual Loyalties Pose Threat to U.S. Culture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[William Shannon]

http://www.americanfreepress.net/02_08_02/Dual_Loyalties_Pose_Threat/dual_loyalties_pose_threat.html Dual Loyalties Pose Threat to U.S. Culture Congress could strike a bold blow against terrorism by reforming immigration laws so that new “citizens” are loyal to this country and no other.   Exclusive to American Free Press By James P. Tucker Jr.   The urgency of the need for Congress to dramatically overhaul immigration laws was stressed by a new report showing America being overwhelmed with “citizens” whose loyalties lie with other countries. Most of the debate over immigration reform in Congress has concentrated on protecting the shores and borders from terrorists but the Center for Immigration Reform’s report released Jan. 31 points up the threat of “dual citizenship.” Millions of American “citizens” remain loyal to their country of origin despite swearing allegiance to the United States, the report said. Among them could be “sleeper” terrorists waiting for the signal to conduct terrorist attacks on the scale of 9-11 More than one million people immigrate to the United States each year—nearly 90 percent from countries that allow dual citizenship, the center said. The largest immigrant-sending country is Mexico. CONFLICTING IDENTITIES “Is it possible to be a fully engaged and knowledgeable citizen of several countries?” the report asked. “Is it possible to follow two or more very different cultural traditions? Is it possible to have two, possibly conflicting, core identifications and attachments? And, assuming such things are possible, are they desirable?” Stanley Renshon, Ph.D., professor of political science at City University of New York and author of the study, answered his own questions: • “No country can afford to have large numbers of citizens with shallow national or civic attachments. Further, no country facing divisive domestic issues arising out of increasing diversity, as the United States does today, benefits from large-scale immigration of those with multiple loyalties and attachments. • “The process of being attached to one’s country of origin begins early and immigrants, understandably, often are conflicted in this regard. Today, governments of immigrant-sending countries around the world actively take steps to ensure that these old loyalties and attachments are maintained and even stimulated. • “The United States traditionally has accepted immigrants with the assumption that they and their children would eventually become anchored to an American identity. This assumption has increasingly come under attack from those who reject America’s inclusive pluralism in favor of a ‘multicultural manifesto’ that equates assimilation with domination.” Immigration Service official figures for 1994-1998 show that 17 of the top 20 immigrant-sending countries (85 percent) allow some form of multiple citizenship. Of the more than 2.6 million immigrants from the top 20 countries, more than 2.2 million (86 percent) are multiple-citizenship immigrants. The report makes clear that a “dual citizen” cannot be 100 percent loyal to any country. If a citizen is 100 percent loyal to America, there is no loyalty left for another country. It made the point that earlier immigrants came to this country to seek opportunity, made a lifetime commitment, assimilated, became 100 percent loyal and their descendants are loyal Americans. In acknowledging that all Americans are immigrants or descendants of immigrants the report approached but failed to confront the dual loyalty of Americans who apply for and obtain Israeli citizenship while maintaining their U.S. citizenship. “In the annals of lobbying, the efficacy of those lobbying for the state of Israel is legendary and a model for those who wish to use their dual citizenship to emulate it,” the report said. Normally, when an American applies for and obtains citizenship in another country it is considered an automatic renunciation of U.S. citizenship. If the American becomes a citizen by the unilateral action of the other country—for example, if an American marries a French citizen in France, he is a French citizen whether he likes it or not—he retains U.S. citizenship. But Americans, under an obscure provision of the 1953 Immigration Reform Act, who apply for and obtain Israeli citizenship retain their U.S. citizenship. How is their 100 percent loyalty divided? How do these “citizens” act when the interests of the United States and Israel are in conflict?