This is the twice-weekly hidden open thread. The Obama administration revoked her passport due to her not being a citizen-while she was born in the US, her father was a diplomat. Her father claims he stopped being a diplomat before she was born, but US records show he did not lose diplomatic status until after she was born. She did have a right to a hearing for her passport removal, but she did not take advantage of this as she was with ISIS when the letter informing her about this was sent.
Since she did not timely request the hearing, is she now estopped from claiming she is a citizen yes, she would likely get more sympathy if she had been in Africa distributing malaria nets rather than fighting for ISIS?
Am I right in assuming that much of this is based on nobody wanting to be the person who signed off on her entry into the country if she somehow does something terrible? How easy would it be for the government to convict her of something were she allowed back in to be arrested at the airport? UK has a similar thing right now, except she is or was British citizen.
Bangladesh denies this, for obvious reasons. Everyone is waiting for her lawyer to make the next move. Plus she was a minor when she left to join ISIS, and she now has a son, just to make things more complex. I doubt she has committed any crime for which a British court could or should convict her, but she would certainly require ongoing scrutiny from the security services. If it were only her, I would be inclined to leave her where he is but let her in if she found a way back under her own steam; the child, however, is β or at any rate should be regarded as β a British citizen, and is completely innocent.
As such, with reservations, I would be inclined to try to get her out and probably commence court proceedings to remove the child from her once she got back. Naturally this is politically impossible β only a very secure government could afford to pursue such an unpopular point of principle. I wonder whether Javid is fully expecting her to successfully appeal against the decision.
