<em>The Atlantic </em>Daily: When an American ISIS Fighter Wants to Come Home

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Now, the woman, Hoda Muthana, says she wants to return to the U.S., but Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has declared that Muthana never had U.S. citizenship to begin with, and has no legal basis to come back to the country with her 18-month-old son. Graeme Wood argues that that’s a shortsighted move, setting a potentially illegal precedent for Americans to be stripped of their citizenship without any sort of due process. Regardless of the potential legality, no matter how—wishes to disown Muthana, the U.S. can’t deny that she is a product of America, Wood writes,