
DOJ directs US attorneys to seek to revoke citizenship of naturalized Americans over crime
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The Justice Department issued a memo directing US attorneys to pursue denaturalization proceedings in an effort to target dangerous criminals.
Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.
"The benefits of civil denaturalization include the government’s ability to revoke the citizenship of individuals who engaged in the commission of war crimes, extrajudicial killings, or other serious human rights abuses; to remove naturalized criminals, gang members, or, indeed, any individuals convicted of crimes who pose an ongoing threat to the United States; and to prevent convicted terrorists from returning to U.S. soil or traveling internationally on a U.S. passport," Shumate wrote.
"The Department of Justice may institute civil proceedings to revoke a person’s United States citizenship if an individual either ‘illegally procured’ naturalization or procured naturalization by ‘concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation,’" he added in the June 11 directive.













