Borris Johnson, the MP for Henley and Shadow Higher Education Minister was refused entry to the US when he went there on holiday with his family. The reason being that he had a British passport, yet was born in New York. Apparently if you are born in the US you can only use a US passport, despite the fact he is British. He then had to get another flight home at his own expense.
I think it's ridiculous and he should have refused to leave, until they locked him up - imagine the trouble the immigration officials would have got in when their superiors found out they had arrested a member of the British Shadow Cabinet for travelling on a British passport, it certainly wouldn't have helped Anglo-American relations.
Do people think this is a silly rule, or that anyone with any sort of claim to US citizenship should be forced to have a US passport? Personally I think it's an attempt for the US government to make more money, by making more people pay for passports they don't (shouldn't) need.
I think it's ridiculous and he should have refused to leave, until they locked him up - imagine the trouble the immigration officials would have got in when their superiors found out they had arrested a member of the British Shadow Cabinet for travelling on a British passport, it certainly wouldn't have helped Anglo-American relations.
Do people think this is a silly rule, or that anyone with any sort of claim to US citizenship should be forced to have a US passport? Personally I think it's an attempt for the US government to make more money, by making more people pay for passports they don't (shouldn't) need.