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- ABC News
- February 20, 2019
'ISIS bride' not a US citizen: Sec. Pompeo
She had been asking to return to the United States, but Trump will not allow it.
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Shibly said Trump is trying to \"play games\" with American citizens.
\"I think it’s preposterous, that the president called for Europe to take back its citizens and now is trying to play games when it comes to American citizens,\" he said.
The State Department said Muthana has never been a U.S. citizen.
\"Hoda Muthana was not born a U.S. citizen and she has never been a U.S. citizen,\" according to a State Department release.
The department said that \"there are many reasons that an individual previously issued a passport may subsequently be found ineligible for that passport\" and that said passport \"may be revoked and/or a renewal application denied.\"
Muthana was born to a Yemeni diplomat in New Jersey and moved to New York and then Washington, D.C., before finally settling with her family in Alabama as a seventh grader, she said.
While children born in America are granted citizenship under the 14th Amendment, children of foreign diplomats are not because they are not under the \"jurisdiction of\" the U.S., according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Still, children of diplomats can apply for residency and then eventually citizenship, per USCIS.
Muthana was seen in photos while under ISIS claiming to show her U.S. passport. Only U.S. citizens can obtain American passports.
She, her family and their lawyer maintain she is a U.S. citizen.
Muthana surrendered to Kurdish authorities within the SDF and is now one of 1,500 foreign women and children living in a Kurdish-run refugee camp in northern Syria.
When interviewed by ABC, she expressed remorse and regret about her social media posts inciting violence in the name of Islam and ISIS.
\"I wish I could take it completely off the net, completely out of people's memory. ... I regret it. ... I hope America doesn't think I'm a threat to them and I hope they can accept me and I'm just a normal human being who's been manipulated once and hopefully never again,\" she said.
Muthana said U.S. consul officials had not been in contact with her yet. She said she cried herself to sleep, worrying that if and when she returns to the U.S., she will be sentenced to jail and separated from her son.
Shibly told ABC News the young mother was \"brainwashed\" by ISIS and now feels \"tremendous remorse.\"
James Longman contributed to this report.
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