A Republican senator has introduced a bill to ban Americans from holding dual citizenship, in the latest attempt by the right to attack immigrants and tighten the rules around what is permissible with regards to American citizenship.

Sen. Bernie Moreno, a Republican from Ohio, introduced the legislation , entitled the “Exclusive Citizenship Act,” on Tuesday. The bill makes the sweeping assertion that people with foreign citizenships may have “conflicts of interest and divided loyalties.”

Under the bill, anyone who acquires foreign citizenship would be forced to relinquish their U.S. citizenship, and any who already hold foreign citizenship would have to submit a written renunciation of their U.S. or foreign citizenship to the government within a year. Those who didn’t comply would be

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