Speaker. I have just sent to the Clerk a bill which would repeal the inequitable section 404 (c) of the Nationality Act of 1940. This is the subsection in which Congress for the first time departed from the principle of indivisibility of citizenship by providing for the automatic expatriation of naturalized citizens who reside anywhere abroad for 5 years or more. It is my belief that this section flagrantly violates the spirit of the Constitution and the language of the Constitution. It creates a caste of secondclass citizens with rights and privileges inferior to the rights and privileges of nativeborn citizens.
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