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During the past year, the Italian government severely tightened its citizenship laws to the detriment of many Italian Americans. Now U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno has thrust himself into the center of this growing dual citizenship controversy by introducing a bill that would require any American who holds citizenship in another country to either renounce that foreign citizenship or risk losing their U.S. citizenship. Moreno’s bill, filed on Dec. 1 and known as the Exclusive Citizenship Act, has sparked strong criticism from our Italian American organizations. On behalf of both the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations (COPOMIAO), and …