The real question about Hoda Muthana revolves around whether she ever had US citizenship in the first place. She was born in the USA a month after her father was fired from his position as a Yemeni diplomat. To say that she is not entitled to birthright citizenship because her father was a diplomat implies that her father still enjoyed diplomatic immunity after he was fired. That is not a wise precedent to set, but it is the argument that we are apparently going with (that for purposes of Hoda's citizenship at least, her father was still a Yemeni diplomat, opening the door other fired diplomats to claim immunity if they're caught, say, engaging in espionage, on the grounds that fired diplomats who remain in the USA are still somehow diplomats).
Yemen doesn't allow dual citizenship and requires 10 years residency to gain citizenship, so if she is rejected by the USA on the grounds that she isn't a citizen, then she's not a citizen of any country at all. It will be entirely up to her captors what happens to her. As a stateless person, her fate could be pretty much anything her captors decide, from execution to freedom. But at least we'll have claimed that fired diplomats are still diplomats for the sake of not taking on the responsibility to try her ourselves.
Yemen doesn't allow dual citizenship and requires 10 years residency to gain citizenship, so if she is rejected by the USA on the grounds that she isn't a citizen, then she's not a citizen of any country at all. It will be entirely up to her captors what happens to her. As a stateless person, her fate could be pretty much anything her captors decide, from execution to freedom. But at least we'll have claimed that fired diplomats are still diplomats for the sake of not taking on the responsibility to try her ourselves.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
