No Room for Divided Loyalties: Why Congress Must Crack Down on Dual Citizenship
By Jose Alberto Niño
Director’s note: The LA riots, Chinese espionage, and fanatic support for Israel's wars are all examples of our vulnerability to what Jose Niño calls ethnic capture—the process by which diaspora communities pressure policymakers to prioritize foreign interests over domestic needs.
Recognizing this threat, Thomas Massie (R-KY) (of “every-House-Republican-has-an-"AIPAC babysitter" fame earlier this year) and Tim Burchett (R-TN) have both introduced bills which require candidates to disclose all foreign citizenships during filing. Co-sponsors include Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Clay Higgins (R-LA), Nicholas Begich (R-AK), and Troy Nehls (R-TX).
This is a good first step and if you live in one of these districts, thank your congressmen (or woman).
But as pro-Western nationalists, we believe civil servants cannot hold dual loyalties and banning dual-citizenship in congress is a must.
"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn’t doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t American at all."
–Theodore Roosevelt in a letter addressed to the Chairman of the American Defense Society on January 3, 1919
Theodore Roosevelt's remarks on immigration and national identity in 1919 remain strikingly relevant today. This uncompromising vision of singular loyalty now fuels contemporary debates about elected officials holding multiple citizenships—a practice that leaves the U.S. open to foreign manipulation through ethnic interest groups and creates systemic vulnerabilities in national decision-making.
Modern America faces growing risks of ethnic capture—the phenomenon where diaspora communities pressure policymakers to prioritize foreign interests over domestic needs. The Israel lobby provides a telling case study. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and its Political Action Committee, spent close to $126.9 million during the 2023-2024 election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission records. This sum includes over $55.2 million in contributions to federal candidates, with at least $45.2 million directed to the campaigns of members of the 119th U.S. Congress.
For all this spending from the Israel lobby, the Jewish state has been handsomely rewarded with roughly $310 billion (adjusted for inflation) in total economic and military assistance from the United States since its founding in 1948, according to figures compiled by the Council on Foreign Relations.
Additionally, Israel receives security guarantees and diplomatic cover from the United States thanks to the ethnic capture of DC. This has created an entangling alliance for the United States that is dragging us into another Middle Eastern war, this time with Israel’s arch-rival, Iran.
In Congress. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has been the most vocal critic of the United States’s entangling alliance with Israel and the amount of influence the Israel lobby holds on the political process. The Kentucky congressman exposed this dynamic by noting every House Republican "has an AIPAC babysitter" monitoring their votes – a system ensuring steadfast support for Israeli priorities regardless of U.S. interests.
To address some of the issues concerning foreign influence and dual loyalty in the United States, elected officials like Massie have introduced legislation such as The Dual Loyalty Disclosure Act (H.R. 2356. The bill mandates federal candidates disclose all foreign citizenships during filing. With five co-sponsors (Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Clay Higgins (R-LA), Nicholas Begich (R-AK), and Troy Nehls (R-TX) as of April 2025, H.R. 2356’s growing support indicates that more elected officials are taking the issue of dual loyalty more seriously.
Massie has not been alone in pushing for such legislation. Last year, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) introduced “The Dual Citizenship Disclosure Act” (H.R. 7484): Rep. Tim Burchett's (R-TN) 2024 proposal requires sitting Congress members to declare foreign national status, imposing $2,500 fines for non-compliance. Though stalled in committee, H.R. 7484 has likely inspired bills like the one Massie is promoting.
One can’t talk about dual loyalty without bringing up immigration. The large number of immigrants that have been imported to the United States leave certain sectors of the economy vulnerable to foreign influence operations. Over two-thirds of workers in Silicon Valley are foreign born. In the tech sector, 41% of Silicon Valley’s highly-educated tech workers were from China or India, compared to 30% from the United States.
As emerging powers, China and India could potentially execute influence operations tapping into their respective diasporas in the United States. They could even get their own kinsmen elected in Congress and allow for these two countries to effectively penetrate the U.S. government and use it as a vehicle to advance agendas that go against the American people’s interests.
There are 19 foreign-born legislators currently serving in Congress, with least 80 lawmakers either being foreign-born or having one parent born abroad.
This poses an existential threat to the United States’ cohesiveness as a political unit. Banning dual-citizenship in congress is a given to any sensible nationalist. But it’s not enough.
In addition to barring elected officials from holding multiple citizenships, immigration restriction—especially on legal forms of immigration —, remigration, and restrictions on foreign campaign finance must follow. The open society model of the last century is one that not only leads to the economic stagnation of Middle America but endless foreign entanglements.
The Massie-Burchett proposals represent necessary first steps toward disentangling ourselves from foreign influence. By combining citizenship transparency with immigration reform and sensible economic nationalist measures, America can revive the founders' vision of a prosperous republic free from foreign entanglements “for ourselves and for our posterity.” As geopolitical competition intensifies, Roosevelt's maxim remains imperative: in the halls of power, there must be "no divided allegiance.”
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