A strange tale: The British Member of Parliament, Boris Johnson, happens to have been born in New York (because he wanted to be close to his mother at the time).So his British passport shows him born there.In all other respects he is British, having two native- born and resident British parents and lived all his life in Britain.However, he did once have a US passport. He must have obtained it when he was very young : he claims it was when Dean Rusk was Secretary of State and he is only 42 now.He let it expire long ago.He has not resided in the USA since early childhood.
Two weeks ago he was to fly with his British wife and British children from London to Mexico via Houston. At the Continental Airlines desk a security man noticed his place of birth and asked whether he'd ever held an American passport. Being told that he had but it was long expired and he used his British one the official refused to allow him to board. He was to go to the US Embassy next day and get a new American passport as once he'd had had an American passport only an American passport would get him into the States. This was confirmed by the man's superior. So Mr Johnson said that he wished then and there to declare himself renouncing any claim to American citizenship or any passport but was told firmly that he'd still need papers to that effect from the Embassy . So he put his wife and children on the flight and had to go to another airline and buy, at great expense, a ticket to fly him via Madrid to Mexico that day.(To his amusement he arrived in Mexico 45 minutes earlier than they did)
Had he been a Mexican trying to get into the USA from Mexico he might have had an easier time
Now, what logic dictates this American possessiveness towards their erstwhile, and highly temporary, citizen?
. So he put his wife and children on the flight and had to go to another airline and buy, at great expense, a ticket to fly him via Madrid to Mexico that day.(To his amusement he arrived in Mexico 45 minutes earlier than they did)
