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  > no doubt taking advantage of the laws and protections
  > afforded by both countries as it suited them.
It's more likely that they just wanted easier passage into the United States for vacationing and/or visiting relatives by using their US passport than their Canadian one.

Also, if you lived in Canada since you were 13 and committed a crime in Canada, I doubt that you would be able to claim that you were immune due to your US citizenship.

On the same token, I've heard that the US enforces its laws overseas if your a US citizen. E.g. if you go to another country to have sex with a child prostitute, you can still be charged with a crime in the US, or so I was told on some message board (want to say slashdot.org) some years ago in a US/foreign discussion.




>if you go to another country to have sex with a child prostitute, you can still be charged with a crime in the US, or so I was told on some message board

Now you've been told on this message board.

Mann Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act

Protect Act of 2003 http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1467.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_Act_of_2003


Yep. It is illegal for a US citizen to travel abroad to solicit sex with a child. But I'm not sure the concept is so outrageous; I think most countries illegalize certain behavior overseas, like smuggling, weapons or person trafficking, or corrupting officials.


Ok, so this is for specific things. When I came across that proclamation, it was something to the effect of "The US enforces its laws outside its borders, you can't escape US law" with going to Thailand to have sex with kids as the example given. It makes more sense that it's just for specific things.


FWIW, entering the U.S. for a vacation with a Canadian passport is trivial. (Unless you're the wrong colour or on the wrong kind of a secret list - but I imagine those troubles would apply to U.S. citizens as well.)




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