Trump's DOJ Wants To Strip Citizenship From More Americans
HuffPost
A new memo urges the department's Civil Division to make denaturalization a key focus.
A staggering Justice Department memo reveals that the Trump administration intends to ramp up denaturalizations — and broaden the criteria that’s used to determine if a naturalized citizen’s citizenship could be stripped away.
Though only a handful of people faced the process in the ’90s and ’00s, Trump’s first administration saw the creation of a division dedicated to denaturalizing people who committed certain crimes, such as terrorists or sex offenders. But now, according to the June 11 DOJ memo, the administration intends to widen the pool of eligible individuals, including, for example, those who’ve fraudulently used government programs like the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program, and those who’ve committed fraud against people and corporations. And the Trump administration says it won’t be stopping there.
“These categories do not limit the Civil Division from pursuing any particular case, nor are they listed in a particular order of importance,” the memo adds.
That’s highly concerning, immigration experts warn, and could lead to the administration targeting a wide swath of U.S. citizens, given how amorphous its requirements are. The DOJ and White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“An expansion has the potential to make more people vulnerable,” Kathleen Bush-Joseph, a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, told HuffPost.
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