Two women who left the U.S. to join the Islamic State in Syria want to come home now. “I realized how I didn’t appreciate or maybe even really understand how important the freedoms that we have in America are," one of the women said.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/american-isis-brides-who-denounced-us-now-pleading-to-come-home …
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Back in 2017,
@tedcruz pushed a bill revoking citizenship as a deterrent to joining ISIS.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cruz-in-push-to-revoke-citizenship-from-americans-who-join-islamic-state …3 replies 17 retweets 30 likesShow this thread -
Previous iterations of the bill have drawn opposition from some civil libertarians. "The awesome and horrible power of being able to take away the citizenship of an American citizen would be turned over to an unnamed bureaucrat," a spokesman for the
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But @tedcruz called his bill "common sense."
"People can [wage] war against America in more ways than one," he said. "You don't need to be a member of a nation-state military to be a terrorist at war with America."https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cruz-in-push-to-revoke-citizenship-from-americans-who-join-islamic-state …
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