Pompeo says Alabama woman who joined ISIS cannot return to US

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47. I have no sympathy for this woman

But either we're a nation of laws or we're not. If she's not a US citizen (and there seems to be some question on this point), then clearly we can prohibit her return. If she's a US citizen, then she has a right to return. Now, we could certainly charge her with treason, or we could move to revoke her citizenship on the basis that she joined a foreign military (dubious, but we could try). Either way, the US government needs to follow the law and actually do those things and not make up arbitrary rules of "you married an ISIS fighter and therefore lose your citizenship". There are lots of horrible organizations out there, but we aren't revoking citizenship of women who married men who were in the IRA, or of women who marry concentration camp guards. What makes ISIS special enough to merit a carve out in our law in ways that other cases don't? ISIS barely even registers on the genocidal maniacs scale of the last 100 years.