# At what point would you leave the US, if you had citizenship elsewhere?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 31, 2017, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-point-would-you-leave-the-us-if-you-had-citizenship-elsewhere/778645 "2017-01-31T05:49:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-point-would-you-leave-the-us-if-you-had-citizenship-elsewhere/778645/21 "2017-01-31T18:20:57Z")

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If second-class citizenship, officially sanctioned Kristallnacht-style harassment, or roundups of US citizens or Green Card holders based on national origin, race, religion, or some other protected status begins, we’re outta’ here. I don’t mean microaggressions or the kind of discrimination we see now, but rather, revoking the voting rights or limiting the right to free movement for Muslims, star-and-crescent armbands, and the like.

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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-point-would-you-leave-the-us-if-you-had-citizenship-elsewhere/778645/22 "2017-01-31T18:47:06Z")

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> [@jtur88](#):
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> Other countries don’t do that. They are not governed by eight-year-old snivelers on a tantrum.
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> Granted, in the '70s, there were a few countries that made it nearly impossible for an American to get a visa, but there aren’t any now. But quite a few charge a much higher visa fee to Americans, and that is retaliatory (they use the euphemism “reciprocal”), so there may be added difficulty for Americans traveling the world.

Am I parsing this correctly - reworded, I see “No country would do that except some that have and some that do”.

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