Joel Slater
Person
1960 –
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Who is Joel Slater?
Joel Laverne Slater was an American activist who renounced his citizenship in 1987 in Australia, voluntarily making himself stateless to protest U.S. foreign policy. The Australian government soon after deported him back to United States, and after six years of fruitless efforts aimed at finding another country to which he could be admitted as a refugee, Slater asked the State Department to reverse its earlier recognition of his renunciation, and had his U.S. citizenship restored.
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