Romney's dual citizenship with mexico

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Apparrently his father is Mexican, nothing wrong with that...but read this quote

“We certainly have a love for both countries. I can sing both national anthems and tear up at both of them,” he said. “I think that having two countries that you love and two countries that you can serve or be a beneficiary of their service is a great thing.”


wtf??! !??

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/10/s ... -revealed/

Jojo, good for you. It makes me wonder exactly what it is these conservatives wish to conserve besides their own personal fortunes. "Serving" two countries is like, uh, bigamy.

This is going to get Ron Paul's advantage in terms of this mess.

thats not good. Out of all of them....Huntsman is the least scary.

Maybe he's trying to garner the votes from hispanic voters? =/

Also, what's wrong with someone having dual-citizenship vying for presidency? =/

So, his Dad's Mexican. I still won't vote for him, but neither that or his religion is the reason why.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Nonsense--well, partially.

I am a dual national, and I am perfectly capable of loyalty to both of my countries of nationality. My status as a public servant in the government of one of those two countries requires me to disclose my nationalities, and potentially to excuse myself when the bilateral relations of the two countries are at issue.

However, a head of government cannot delegate away the management of bilateral relations--and given the importance of the US-Mexico bilateral, there is a real question to be answered about how he proposes to manage that relationship.

It doesnt matter to me that his dad is Mexican or that he is Mormon, but the fact he said that he serves and is a benifiacary of service of two countries while possibly being the president of the US could be a major conflict of interest. How can we guarentee his interests are solely for the US, and not more so for Mexico.
I would be just as suspicious if his dual citizenship was with France or Hungary. To be willing to serve another country while being president of this one doesnt seem right. What if he sends a huge amount of taxpayer money to Mexico for something that is just an interest to them? That would be of service to Mexico.

thank you visagrunt for explaining how those two dualities in citizenship can exist without a conflict of interests, but in the case of presidents, they play by their own rules for the most part unless they are called on it.

Jojo

It was his father, George Romney, who was born in Mexico.

Mitt was born in the U.S., so this wouldn't affect his presidential campaign.

Does this mean we're going to have a "birther" debate about Mitt Romney, like we have about Obama.

(For the record, while President Obama was a U.S.-born Christian, his father *was* a Kenya-born Muslim).

I don't think that this is a "birther" issue Tim_Tex, but rather a question of whether there is a fundamental conflict of interest in holding more than one nationality while being responsible for the foreign policy of one of those countries.

Consider, no state is compelled to extend diplomatic immunity to one of its own nationals. So what impact does that have on the potential for any official visit to Mexico by a President who is a dual national? While one would expect the Mexican foreign ministry to extend all courtesies, what if a Mexican citizen were to attempt to bring a private prosecution--could a President in such a circumstance avoid jurisdiction?

We had a tempest in a teapot with our previous Governor General, who, at the time of her appointment, had dual Canadian-French nationality. She disclaimed her French nationality before taking office in order to avoid any potential divided loyalty.