Today in class, we were talking about the piece of writing "How I Started to Write" which we had read the night before. The author is Mexican because his father is, but he was born in Panama City. We talked about how this influenced his writing and his relationship with his father, and how he didn't really connect with Mexico until he was there. From there, we started to talk about how Alex just got his green card in the mail, and how he now had dual citizenship. Then we said that America doesn't recognize the citizenship in of the other country. Someone asked why that was, but that was even too off topic for us.
Therefore,
Dual citizenship is allowed. Most of the laws that forbid it are no longer in action because of the cases, of Afroyim v. Rusk, in 1967 as well as Vance v. Terrazas in 1980. However, you can only have it if you were a US citizen first and then become a citizen of another country. When you become a US citizen, you are supposed to renounce your other citizenship. As a minor, you don't have to do this until you are of age. You can hold both citizenships, in a way. If the person's native country chooses to ignore that US law, and let you keep your citizenship, the US is doing nothing to stop that.
http://www.richw.org/dualcit/faq.html#noway
NOTE: Alex's kitty folder = baller
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