Can the U.S. government seize the passports of American citizens who it believes may travel abroad to join ISIS or other terror groups? Yep. The process is almost no-cost to the government, extra-judicial, can be made secret and requires a lengthy court process to even try to contest. No passport, no international travel, the ultimate no-fly tool against would-be jihadis. ...
And the procedure is ostensibly legal... but it has not been much used. Read van Buren's post to learn why.
Why would you want to stop a jihadi from going to where he's probably going to get killed? Let those people go! Just don't let them come back in. Just create a law that if you willingly fight for any force other than the US, your guilty of a felony and subject to lengthy incarceration. Of course that would put Israeli import soldiers in the same boat as the Jihadists and that's OK with me.
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Shirt, you know as well as I do that this isn't about jihad: it's about whether a citizen of a free country has an intrinsic right to travel internationally, and whether that right can be revoked without due process. Apparently, the answers are "NO" and "YES"; I can't say I'm very happy with those answers.
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