The United States Supreme Court today agreed to look into the constitutionality of some aspects of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act that strips citizenship from naturalized persons.
Naturalized Americans who return to their native land for three or more years are faced with loss of citizenship in one aspect of the law under consideration. The decision, however, clears the way for a broad review of the power of Congress to revoke citizenship. Other cases involving deprivation of citizenship were also accepted for review. During a recent 12-month period, 1, 065 persons had their citizenship revoked under one provision alone of the controversial nationality law. Chief Justice Earl Warren said “the citizenship of the lawfully naturalized and the native-born cannot be taken from them.”
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