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When Marrying Foreigners Cost American Women Their Citizenship

March 21, 2017March 20, 2017 Jocelyn Eikenburg 10 Comments America, American women, Chinese Exclusion Act, Eurasian, foreign men, Mae Franking, Mae Franking's My Chinese Marriage, Muslim ban, xenophobia

Among the dark chapters of US history, there was a moment in time where my marriage to Jun, a Chinese citizen, would have cost me my American citizenship.