Manuel Gonzalez-Jasso v. William P. Rogers, Attorney General of the United States

WASHINGTON, Circuit Judge.

The issue in the present case is whether uncorroborated extra-judicial admissions by a native-born American that he voted in a foreign political election are sufficient to serve as a basis for expatriation under Section 401(e) of the Nationality Act of 1940. 1

Appellant was born of Mexican parents in El Paso, Texas, on November 11, 1919, and thereby became a dual national of the United States and Mexico. At the age of eleven he moved with his parents to Mexico. On three separate occasions — April 9, 1945, September 25, 1945, and September 23, 1948 — appellant sought…