Trump’s justice department issues directive to strip naturalized Americans of citizenship for criminal offenses
Trump’s justice department issues directive to strip naturalized Americans of citizenship for criminal offenses
Memo says those subjected to civil proceedings are not entitled to an attorney like they are in criminal cases
The Trump administration has codified its efforts to strip some Americans of their US citizenship in a recently published justice department memo that directs attorneys to prioritize denaturalization for naturalized citizens who commit certain crimes.
The memo, published on 11 June, calls on attorneys in the department to 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”.
At the center of the move are the estimated 25 million US citizens who immigrated to the country after being born abroad, according to data from 2023 – and it lists 10 different priority categories for denaturalization.
According to the memo, those subjected to civil proceedings are not entitled to an attorney like they are in criminal cases. And the government has a lighter burden of proof in civil cases than they do in criminal ones.
Edit: According to the Miami Herald, it depends on where you live:
The Supreme Court’s ruling means the judges’ injunctions blocking Trump’s executive order only affect the jurisdictions where immigrant groups filed their lawsuits — leaving the rest of the country, including Florida, subject to the president’s citizenship order. The turn of events is likely to lead to more federal lawsuits, including a class action case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union in New Hampshire on Friday.
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So if you hold a green card/passport holder claims that their boss sexually assaulted. If they fail to prove it (which is always hard to prove even with evidence) they could denaturalize them since it is a "False Claim Act" violation.
Am I understanding this correctly?
No. You did not understand it correctly. I suggest reading the article. They're quite clear in what types of offenses could lead to denaturalization.
Elaborate.
Elaborate on how to read an article? I don't know what to tell you. You click the link, reject the cookies, and proceed to read the text.
The memo, published on 11 June, calls on attorneys in the department to 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”.
The memo claims such efforts will focus on those who are involved “in the commission of war crimes, extrajudicial killings, or other serious human rights abuses … [and] naturalized criminals, gang members, or, indeed, any individuals convicted of crimes who pose an ongoing threat to the US”.
On 13 June, a judge ordered the revocation of the citizenship of Elliott Duke. Duke is a US military veteran originally from the UK who was convicted for distributing child sexual abuse material and had not disclosed the crime during the naturalization process.
Immigration attorneys are concerned that denaturalization cases via civil litigation strip some rights from the individual, including rights to an attorney as well as lowering the threshold of proof, and speeding up the denaturalization process.
Oh I thought you meant I didn't know how to read the memo the president released that had more detail. If you read that, it goes into the other ways to lose citizenship.
I assume, just like the president, you don't read the shit he signs.
Clearly you failed at that too then. If you had read it. You wouldn't be confused nor would you think pressing charges that does not result in conviction due to lack of evidence would be sufficient grounds.
- Cases against individuals who pose a potential danger to national security, including those with a nexus to terrorism, espionage, or the unlawful export from the United States of sensitive goods, technology, or information raising national security concerns;
- Cases against individuals who engaged in torture, war crimes, or other human rights violations;
- Cases against individuals who further or furthered the unlawful enterprise of criminal gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and drug cartels;
- Cases against individuals who committed felonies that were not disclosed during the naturalization process;
- Cases against individuals who committed human trafficking, sex offenses, or violent crimes;
- Cases against individuals who engaged in various forms of financial fraud against the United States (including Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loan fraud and Medicaid/Medicare fraud);
- Cases against individuals who engaged in fraud against private individuals, funds, or corporations;
- Cases against individuals who acquired naturalization through government corruption, fraud, or material misrepresentations, not otherwise addressed by another priority category;
- Cases referred by a United States Attorney’s Office or in connection with pending criminal charges, if those charges do not fit within one of the other priorities; and
- Any other cases referred to the Civil Division that the Division determines to be sufficiently important to pursue.
You slow witted dipshit.
- Cases against individuals who engaged in fraud against private individuals, funds, or corporations.
Consistent with these directives, the Civil Division will use all available resources to pursue affirmative litigation combatting unlawful discriminatory practices in the private sector. In particular, the Civil Division is authorized to bring suit under the False Claims Act for treble damages and penalties against any person who knowingly submits or causes the submission of false claims to the government.
Stick to sucking off another country's nazi president somewhere else. Or just switch through your accounts jerking yourself off.
Reading must be difficult for you.
knowingly submits or causes the submission of false claims
As in, they can prove you knew it wasn't true.
I don't like Trump. But your example of someone pressing charges against sexual harassment/assault, and not being able to reach a conviction, is very different, from pressing charges that you KNEW wasn't true.
I'm not even going to touch number 7 since you obviously don't understand what constitutes fraud.
Women find it near impossible to prove discrimination and sexual abuse in the workplace as it is. You really think it's gonna be hard for a bunch of old men to wantonly decide that a woman "knew she was lying when she made those claims".
Do yourself a favor and read the transcripts and articles from the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and some of the despicable things that were said about Anita Hill and everything that was done to discredit her and accuse her of lying.
Hell, you don't even need to go that far back. Just look at how many ways people called Christine Blasey Ford a liar. She put herself through hell and still to this day lives in fear for her life because of toxic evil right wingers. And all for nothing as Kavenaigh now sits happily on the supreme court handing Trump win after win against the American people and shitting all over the constitution.
And just how many women were silenced before one was able to bring Harvey Weinstein to justice??
You need to open your eyes and realize the world you live in. Trump's justice department will use whatever they can to deport as many immigrants as possible. They have shown without any shadow of doubt that they care nothing for the legal status of those immigrants.
Bro if you sucked him off any harder, he will fill you with orange cum.
Watching this administration work, what has shown you that they will not target people?
Deporting people at their hearings? Chasing down farm workers or people going to their religious place of worship? He did it all
Lets not forget he was found liable for defamation and sexual abuse. Even the judge knew he raped her.
Rape is the hardest case to prove. Forget the personal abuse the accuser deals with or the stigma from people like you. Then to have to overcome someone just saying " it was rough sex" and "she never stopped me or she didn't say no."
Fuck completely off, you pus filled anal lesion.
You really are an angry little fella. I already told you I don't like Trump. He's a clown in a suit. But your pathetic attempts at insult isn't going to make your argument any stronger.
Stigma from people like me? You got nothing better than baseless accusations and assumptions?
No this is for people like myself who are Americans and can run for President but were born abroad. I was born in Mexico. Im white, not straight and Im terrified as I can now be made stateless.
Much worse than that - a naturalized citizen is a CITIZEN, not a resident. They can vote, have a passport, and everything.
Yeah, naturalized citizens are supposed to be just as citizeny as someone like me who was born here, to citizens, and has ancestors that have been here since this was the united kingdom (I also have an immigrant grandparent, a combination which isn't even rare here).
Historically naturalization being revoked took some hard-core doing on all sides. Naturalization is hard (though it's easy if you're a minor who's parents do it, in which case it transfers to you under certain circumstances), and it involves a lot of checks and tests and takes years. Naturalized citizens tend to love America like nobody else, though those naturalized as children are more like us that were born here.