Ohio U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno recently introduced legislation that would effectively ban dual citizenship in the United States.<\/p>\n
CLEVELAND \u2014 Ohio U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno<\/a> recently introduced legislation<\/a> that would effectively ban dual citizenship in the United States, a move that could affect millions of Americans.<\/p>\n Moreno calls it the “Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025,” saying that being a citizen of the United States should be “all or nothing.” Moreno, who was born in Colombia and immigrated to the U.S. as a child, renounced his Colombian citizenship when he turned 18.<\/p>\n He said in a statement:\u00a0<\/p>\n “One of the greatest honors of my life was when I became an American citizen at 18, the first opportunity I could do so…It was an honor to pledge an Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America and ONLY to the United States of America! Being an American citizen is an honor and a privilege\u2014and if you want to be an American, it’s all or nothing. It’s time to end dual citizenship for good.”<\/p>\n Dr. Brian Edminston, a professor at the Ohio State University for 29 years, holds triple citizenship \u2014 Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He became a U.S. citizen in 2002.<\/p>\n “I really loved it. People from all over the world, we all stood up, we pledged allegiance to the U.S. Constitution,” Edminston recalled of his naturalization ceremony. “The judge was very welcoming. He welcomed us.”<\/p>\n Edminston says he was shocked when he got news of the bill.<\/p>\n “Having citizenship in three countries doesn’t take away from my commitment to being an American or participating in democracy here,” he told 3News.<\/p>\n He also emphasized unity over division, questioning the need for a bill that he says could divide Americans.<\/p>\n “We’re all Americans,” he stated. “We should work together, not be divided against one another by this sort of bill.”<\/p>\n The Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025 has been referred to the Judiciary Committee and faces a long legislative process ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ohio U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno recently introduced legislation that would effectively ban dual citizenship in the United States.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-329865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}