Thursday, May 10, 2012
Dual Citizen of the Day: Michelle Bachmann, Swiss/US Citizen
For details, see this story from Politico on coservative firebrand Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn), a dual Swiss/U.S. citizen. Here is her response:
“This is a non-story. I automatically became a dual citizen of the United States and Switzerland in 1978 when I married my husband, Marcus. Marcus is a dual American and Swiss citizen because he is the son of Swiss immigrants. As a family, we just recently updated our documents.
“I am proud of my husband, Marcus, the love of my life, and his Swiss heritage. Even though I have been a dual citizen since I was married in 1978, I have never exercised any rights of that citizenship. Rather, I have always pledged allegiance to our one nation under God, the United States of America. We live in the greatest nation humankind has ever known and I am proud to be an American.”
After issuing this response, Bachmann reportedly asked the Swiss government to renounce her Swiss citizenship. The restrictionist Center for Immigration Studies has had a field day critizing Bachmann.
KJ
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2012/05/dual-citizen-of-the-day-michelle-bachmann-swissus-citizen.html