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American politician and military officer (born 1968)
Available reporting and public records show no comprehensive, government-maintained count of how many current U.S. senators or representatives hold dual citizenship; multiple sources note the U.S. doe...
Current reporting and public records show that several past and recent members of Congress have held or been reported to have held dual citizenship — for example, Senator Ted Cruz (U.S.-Canada) and Re...
Available reporting does not provide a comprehensive, contemporaneous list of which current U.S. senators hold dual citizenship; most outlets note that the government does not maintain a registry and ...
High-profile deportations of U.S. military veterans — including reported cases such as Georgia Army veteran Godfrey Wade and Purple Heart recipient José Barco — have driven lawmakers and advocates to ...
As of 2025, the two U.S. Senators representing Illinois are and ; multiple state and national rosters list both as incumbent senators . Durbin has publicly announced he will not seek re-election in 20...
Donald Trump received five Vietnam-era draft deferments, four for education and one for a medical deferment for bone spurs in his heels; that medical deferment is the specific focus of enduring contro...
Several well-known U.S. senators have held or been reported to hold dual citizenship; prominent examples in recent reporting include Ted Cruz (U.S. and Canada) and Tammy Duckworth (U.S. and Thailand),...
Current reporting and candidate/legislative materials show a recent push in Congress to require disclosure or ban dual citizenship, led by Sen. Bernie Moreno’s December 2025 “Exclusive Citizenship Act...
Current reporting does not provide a definitive ranked list of which foreign countries are most common among dual‑citizen members of the U.S. Congress; available coverage notes that “a surprising numb...
Tammy Duckworth served as a Black Hawk helicopter pilot during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004 and is repeatedly described in official and reputable profiles as “among the first handful of Army women ...
Tammy Duckworth served in Iraq in 2004 as a UH‑60 Black Hawk helicopter pilot with the Illinois Army National Guard and “flew 120 combat hours over eight months” before her aircraft was struck by an R...
Documented cases exist in reporting and advocacy materials showing immigrant veterans have been deported and in some instances denied the ability to complete naturalization — including veterans preven...
On November 12, 2004, Captain Tammy Duckworth was co‑piloting a UH‑60 Black Hawk during Operation Iraqi Freedom when insurgents fired a rocket‑propelled grenade that struck the aircraft; the explosion...
Available reporting does not provide a comprehensive, sourced list ranking which foreign countries are most commonly held in dual citizenship by current U.S. senators and representatives; major news p...
Exact counts are not publicly available in the sources provided; reporting and advocacy groups say "hundreds" of non‑citizen veterans were deported in recent years and that policy changes under Trump ...
Several bipartisan packages and standalone bills in both chambers of Congress seek to create permanent‑residency paths or other reentry routes for deported veterans; principal sponsors include Sen. Ta...
Tammy Duckworth is an Iraq War veteran, Purple Heart recipient and Democratic U.S. senator from Illinois whose public career has moved from military service and veterans’ advocacy into national politi...
After her 2004 combat deployment to Iraq — where her UH‑60 Black Hawk was hit by an RPG and she suffered life‑changing injuries — Tammy Duckworth spent a year recovering at Walter Reed, then moved int...
Deportation of noncitizen veterans is legally possible under current U.S. immigration law and has occurred at scale, but critics argue blanket removal—especially for nonviolent or service‑related offe...
Congressional and legal responses to the deportation of U.S. veterans have taken three clear forms: bills to prevent future removals and create return pathways, oversight and letters pushing the execu...