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Hatred of U.S. doesn’t warrant citizenship

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Don’t we think it’s time for us to have Congress amend the Constitution to make it follow the intent of the Declaration of Independence, and make it clear all our “citizens” are born equally.

Why do we have to constantly struggle with issues of racists, anti-Semites, anti-Muslims, anti-gays, anti-transgenderists, skinheads and neo-Nazis. If proven to be so, we would then have the power to remove or deny their citizenship and deport them – possibly to North Korea, where their hatred of the United States would be acceptable.

Reinhold Klein

Bradenton

This story was originally published August 18, 2017 at 11:00 AM with the headline "Hatred of U.S. doesn’t warrant citizenship."

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