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Lawmakers scathing on plans to expand citizenship-stripping powers
Patrick Galey
Parliamentarians have launched a scathing attack on plans laid out by the Home Secretary that would allow her to render people stateless.
In January, May inserted a last-minute clause into the Immigration Bill that would expand her current powers to remove the citizenship of terrorism suspects. The Joint Committee on Human Rights, which includes both peers and MPs, today released its second report on the Immigration Bill, including strong criticism of the proposed measures.
The report questioned the timing of Theresa May’s amendment on statelessness and said that the new power ran a ‘very great risk of breaching the UK’s obligations’ to other nations if Britons were to be made stateless while overseas.
May inserted the clause into the Immigration Bill allowing her to strip the UK citizenship of British nationals who hold no other nationality a matter of hours before it reached its parliamentary report stage on January 30.
But her intention to do so appeared in the press several months previously, shortly after the Supreme Court ruled the Home Office had illegally revoked the UK citizenship of an Iraqi-born man, Hilal al-Jedda, because he held no other nationality.
‘We note that the possibility of introducing a power such as this was being publicly floated by the Home Secretary in media interviews… as long ago as November last year,’ the committee found. ‘[The clause] was not preceded by any consultation and the Government has not explained the urgency which requires it to be added to the Bill at such a late stage in the Commons.’
Source: http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/lawmakers-scathing-plans-expand-citizenship-stripping-powers/
citizenship stripping powers is a oxymoron. 14th amendment citizens have no powers or rights. you are stateless after the first bankruptcy, we are now entering the 4th attempt. the only state you should want to be in is BE’ing.