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American-Born ‘ISIS Bride’ Denied US Citizenship by Federal Judge
A US District Court Judge has turned down the request of the woman known as the “ISIS bride” and declared that she is not a US citizen.
As reported by BuzzFeed News, her specific request was to return to the US from a Syrian refugee camp.
Further, according to the court, Hoda Muthana, 25, and her 2-year-old son (born in ISIS territory) are not eligible for financial support from her father, a former Yemeni diplomat living in the US. Should he try to aid her, he will become subject to charges of material support for a terrorist.
Specifically, District Court Judge Reggie Walton ruled that despite Muthana’s 1994 birth in New Jersey as the daughter of a dismissed foreign diplomat who at the time of her birth still had diplomatic status, US regulations do not guarantee her birthright citizenship status. That is because she was born under the jurisdiction of another country.
Query:The Constitution says that any person born or naturalized within the territorial boundaries of the US is a citizen of the US. Now, if Muthana was born within another nation’s embassy or consul located within US territory — technically…
