I am a die hard BeeGees fan and with the tragedies the family has suffered, I have been thinking more about them lately. In fact, it was learning that Barry Gibb has dual citizenship (the US and England) that prompted this post. I have been thinking about dual citizenship. Dual citizenship is being the citizen of two countries at one time. Many countries allow this. The US has no laws specifically prohibiting dual citizenship. But I think it should have. Yes, I think Barry should have to give up his British citizenship if he wants to keep his US citizenship. He should choose one or the other, but should not be allowed both.
A person may be a citizen of the US and another country if his parents are US citizens and he is born in a foreign country. And if two foreign nationals have a kid in the US, that kid automatically gets US citizenship. (This should not be allowed if the parents are illegally in this country when the child is born!) Also a US citizen can obtain dual citizenship by marrying a foreign national. Only if a US citizen actually applies for citizenship somewhere else does he risk losing his US citizenship.
I see some real problems with dual citizenship. How can a person pledge allegiance to two countries and maintain such allegiance in the event the interests of those two countries should be in conflict? This is no place for fence straddling. You are either an American or you are not.
