Surprisingly (to me) Jacob Rees-Mogg has pointed out the dangers of this decision. "Jacob Rees-Mogg says decision to strip Shamima Begum of UK citizenship is ‘racist’ and ‘wrong’""Rees-Mogg, a former cabinet member and standard bearer of the Tory right wing, said the decision by former home secretary Sajid Javid to strip her of her citizenship was “wrong and ought never to have been made”.“This is not because Begum was groomed, trafficked and raped. These are serious considerations, and in all normal circumstances, a 15-year-old treated in such a barbarous way would not be held culpable for her actions,” he wrote in the Spectator magazine [24 February 2024].He said on both equality grounds and the fact she had been deprived of the right to a fair trial she should not have been stripped of UK citizenship.""Begum, then aged 19, was discovered by a British journalist in a detention camp in northern Syria in 2019. Then pregnant with her third child by a Dutch-born jihadist, she said she wanted to return to Britain to have her baby – the first two had died as infants.The British government refused and indicated it would strip her of citizenship, however. Javid said this was based on an intelligence services assessment that she posed a risk to the UK. He said the fact that her parents were from Bangladesh meant she could become a citizen of there instead, although the Bangladeshi government subsequently warned that she would not be admitted there.Begum, whose third baby also died in infancy, has denounced Islamic State, also known as Isis, but has lost a series of legal battles to return to the UK. In 2023, she lost an appeal to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission against the decision to strip her of UK citizenship. Last week, the court of appeal backed the legality of commission’s ruling.Rees-Mogg said the fact that her parents were Bangladeshi, giving her potential citizenship there, had created grounds for stripping her UK rights that would not be available to wield against other UK citizens. He said this created “two classes of Britons” – those with the right of citizenship in another country who could as a result have their Britishness stripped away, and those who didn’t.“This is a fundamentally racist policy as it denies the absolute Britishness of all those who are either recent immigrants themselves or their children,” said the MP.He also said Begum deserved the right to a fair trial in Britain, and should not have that right taken away by a government administrative decision."https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2024/02/26/jacob-rees-mogg-says-decision-to-strip-shamima-begum-of-uk-citizenship-is-racist-and-wrong/Elaborated by this:-"The implications of this draconian deprivation power are stark. For example, Jewish people are entitled to Israeli citizenship under the country’s Law of Return, and those with at least one grandparent born in Ireland can become Irish citizens. A home secretary could thereby deprive a person of their British citizenship if they were satisfied that they would still be entitled to become a citizen of Israel or Ireland or somewhere else. As the United Kingdom is a multicultural nation with many first- and second-generation immigrants, the implications of such a power are chilling. And this executive power is even more worrying when it can render somebody stateless. This is not just a concern of liberal pundits. As the former Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumption, perhaps Britain’s least woke legal commentator, explains:“When the decision was made, in 2019, Ms Begum was 19. She was a citizen of Bangladesh, but only in the most technical sense. She had provisional citizenship until she was 21, when it would lapse unless she took it up. This was because her parents were born there. But she has never been to Bangladesh. She has no links with the country. And Bangladesh has disowned her. Her Bangladeshi citizenship always was a legal fiction. Today, it is not even that. She is 23. As a result of the home secretary’s decision, she is stuck in a camp in Syria, with no citizenship anywhere and no prospect of one. Children who make a terrible mistake are surely redeemable. But statelessness is for ever.”"https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/65095/the-statelessness-of-shamima-begum
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