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[bearsfootball516]

2. Yeah, no.

[Dennis Donovan]

3. Sure, why not? I loved her kids show in the 70's...

[zipplewrath]

4. Depends

I'm not sure we know everything she did. Much of what she is accused wouldn't be a basis for denying citizenship. But she might have to stand trial for some of it.

[Blue_Tires]

5. No, next question

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. I don't have a problem with it.

[AJT]

7. No.

Regret does not equal a free ride. I hope she is sincere, but she will have to find her own way.

[HopeAgain]

8. I think the case should be carefully reviewed.

Isis brainwashed a lot of young people. Can you imagine growing up Muslim in Alabama? Maybe she had reasons to be bitter, disaffected?

If we don't let people think they can ever come back from radicalization, why would they ever de-radicalize?

I think since she is willing to face the U.S. Justice system, it should be seriously considered.

[superpatriotman]

9. hell no

[leftynyc]

10. If she wants to spend the rest of her life in prison

who are we to stop her? But she deserves to be tried for treason.

[FakeNoose]

11. She needs to get a powerful person to help her return

This isn't something she can manage on her own, as much as she regrets leaving the US. Maybe somebody in the State Department or a Congressperson can make some noise about her plight? Maybe a celebrity, in the same way that Kim Kardashian helped that woman in prison? If not, I doubt she has much of a chance.

[grantcart]

12. Of course the answer is yes, it's called due process.

She has likely committed crimes and should be charged and prosecuted.

You really want the Trump administration deciding citizen rights without a transparent prosecution.

By the way I believe that about 3 dozen men have been repatriated and prosecuted.

[gratuitous]

16. Weird how that concept eludes people

The Constitution and our nation's laws aren't reserved just for people we happen to like.

[hunter]

19. Any other answer but "yes" betrays everything the U.S.A. is supposed to stand for.

[jberryhill]

25. According to Trump, the New York Times is an "enemy"

You want to give the administration an arbitrary power to banish US citizens.

Okay. We got that.

[hunter]

27. God almighty, how far we've sunk...

Once upon a time the U.S.A. had mighty enemies like Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and the USSR.

Now our enemies are just a bunch of backward looking criminals trying to relive days of glory that never were.

[RockRaven]

13. If she's a US citizen, she should be able to *attempt* to travel anywhere any other US citizen can,

and, when she is arrested in a lawful manner in the course of those travel attempts, so be it. She should face a fair application of the law with all of the due process any other citizen in any other circumstance would expect for themselves.

And that should be enough -- she's in a world of s--t, legally speaking, if the law is fairly and fully applied.

[Siwsan]

14. If so, she should immediately be taken into custody

We have no way of knowing her actual intentions.

Let her meet with an attorney and her family, and be evaluated by mental health professionals. I admit I'm not really familiar with this story, but if she's been conspiring against the United States, she needs to be charged and brought to justice.

[struggle4progress]

15. If she was born a US citizen, we can't keep her out, unless

she officially renounced her citizenship

[HipChick]

18. Yesterday, the UK did just that..stripped an Isis bride of her UK citizenship...

[WeekiWater]

17. My comment yesterday.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11840205

I'm not sure I understand her current status or whereabouts from the story.


Is she being held by Kurdish authorities at the current moment? Did she surrender herself with charges pending over her?

Either way, I wish I could wish her to American soil immediately. Sort out the rest after we get her back home. Fill the plane with other asylum seekers while we're at it.

[TheBlackAdder]

20. Technically, if she's brainwashed, she can recover when removed, however, if she relapses...

[Fullduplexxx]

21. Jihad jane

"Soooo many Aussies and Brits here, but where are the Americans, wake up u cowards," she posted in January 2015.

And under the name Umm Jihad, she encouraged attacks in the US, tweeting this exhortation in March 2015: "Go on drive-bys and spill all of their blood, or rent a big truck and drive all over them."

Who knows what she has planned

[jberryhill]

24. If she is a US citizen, she has an absolute right to enter the US

There is no "allowed" or "not allowed" about it.

[Eugene]

26. Yes, and she can answer to the criminal justice system for her choices.