"Binationals" and dual allegiance

On its way to the USA

[Reprinted from Issues & Views May 20, 2002]

As United Nations "summit" meetings and authoritarian directives from The Hague's "Tribunals" push to make us all citizens of the world, syndicated columnist Phyllis Schlafly offers some sober reflections on the loss of national identity. Here's an excerpt from "Dual Citizenship Is An Oxymoron," in which she describes the Mexican government's influence on what used to be U.S. law:

Everyone who is naturalized as a U.S. citizen must swear this solemn oath: "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law ... "

Thus, in order to become a U.S. citizen, immigrants are required by law to transfer their allegiance from their native country to the United States of America. But our country is now confronted with the problem of immigrants who have been falsely led to believe that they are or can be dual citizens, and this dangerous notion is diluting our national identity and culture.

Mexico passed a law in 1998 that extends citizenship to Mexicans who are naturalized in other countries and to their children. This is an invitation to new U.S. citizens either to betray their oath of allegiance to the United States or to cross their fingers behind their backs when they take it.

Many statements by President Vicente Fox and other Mexican officials show that their plan is to export a segment of their population to the United States, let them become U.S. citizens, but retain them as Mexican citizens. Mexico wants these new American citizens to consider themselves "binationals," and to vote in both the United States and Mexico, with Mexican politicians campaigning for their votes and allegiance.

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