Just thought I'd hang this idea here. You're either American or not all all and this is just my stance.
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If a US citizen with dual citizenship to a country like Israel commits treason, which so many have, and they run to Israel, we would not be able to bring them back to the US to stand trial.
Your second comment is non-sequitur.
Or if they go to a country with no treaty of extradition. Same result. So what? The practical truth of the matter is that we can't arrest, try, and CONVICT a person of treason unless they are already in our hands. And it totally fails to stop anyone of American citizenship from committing treason.
I take it you assume that anyone leaving the U.S. will not pass through a port of departure where his documents might be inspected (and who would be informed of any fugitives to be on watch for).
So, where has this been a problem in real life? So, you are saying that someone with dual citizenship MIGHT commit treason and escape to another country---and therefore all dual citizenship must be forbidden? I can't help but compare this to the invalid logic of the anti-2nd-Amendment crowd, who want to ban guns because someone with a gun might commit a murder.
I guess we just need to stop this conversation as you are clearly not understanding what is happening. I'm out.
But you haven't established that anything is "happening." You are only putting forward suppositions. This is what happens when nothing is "happening."