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.
we should start calling it ethnic cleansing.
We are slowly creeping towards Republican Party Membership with a "Respectable Voting Record", being the sole requirement for US Citizenship
As long as Mamdani can't run anymore, centrists are on board.
“Criminal offenses”
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 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.
Ah. And it all falls into place.
All that will be left once they get this established is to expand it a bit more, so that any citizen can be stripped of their cirizenship, and thus of their rights, and thus made subject to ICE's authority and legally shipped off to a foreign concentration camp
That alligator concentration camp in Florida is probably for people they think are legal citizens.
What's taking everyone so long to figure that out? I had THAT figured in January. It's called a dictator.
Was everyone assuming he was working for US???
Yeah, because that's not at all fascist in the slightest...
We're in trouble guys.
-- Undocumented immigrants are drug traffickers and violent criminals!
-- Any undocumented immigrant committed a crime just by being here! Deport them all!
-- Documented immigrants who espouse un-American views should have their status revoked and be deported!
-->Citizens who were from abroad, if we believe they went through naturalization improperly should be deported! (America is here)
-- Being born here shouldn't mean a free ticket to citizenship!
-- You don't deserve to have a US citizenship if you aren't on Team America!!!
So, what happens to those people's status regarding their statehood? We can't force their prior country to re-instate their citizenship.
The Supreme Court ruled that they don't even need to send them to the prior country that they came from. So likely indefinite detention and trafficking paid for by the U.S. government until the headlines cease
The conspiracy theory on Tiktok nowadays is that they are just being handcuffed and dumped out of cargo planes into the ocean.
They go to El Salvador or another holding location. Presumably to work.
That sounds like musk to me... Please deport musk