Trump Administration Aims to Strip Citizenship From Hundreds of Naturalized Americans
The New York Times • • nation
Key Points:
- The Justice Department has identified 384 foreign-born Americans whose citizenship it seeks to revoke as part of a new initiative to accelerate denaturalizations by involving prosecutors from 39 U.S. attorney’s offices nationwide.
- Civil litigators across these regional offices will be assigned to file denaturalization cases, marking a shift from the traditional handling by immigration litigation experts.
- Denaturalization efforts target individuals who obtained citizenship fraudulently or committed crimes, a process that requires presenting evidence in federal court and is typically complex and time-consuming.
- This expanded approach could significantly increase the number of denaturalizations, which have been rare in recent decades, and follows a Trump administration directive for DHS to refer over 200 cases monthly to the DOJ.
