This just in: the Trump Department of Justice is ramping up efforts to strip naturalized American citizens who commit serious crimes of their citizenship.

This would allow for foreign-born criminals convicted of heinous offenses to be deported — regardless of their legal citizenship status.

Take a look:

NEW: Department of Justice to prioritize stripping naturalized US citizens of their citizenship upon being convicted of a crime according to Axios.

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JUST ANNOUNCED: The U.S. Department of Justice DOJ is now revoking the U.S. Citizenship of naturalized American Citizens charged with crimes: recent memo pic.twitter.com/VKMOUbsGbT

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In a memo, the Department of Justice specifically directed U.S. attorneys to prioritize denaturalization proceedings for foreign-born American citizens who commit certain crimes.

Some of those crimes mentioned include human trafficking, violent crimes, sexual offenses, and financial fraud.

Fox News has more from the memo:

The memo from Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate states that denaturalization 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” are one of the key priorities.

“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, as first reported by Fox News Digital.

The memo said attorneys should pursue denaturalization cases against individuals who “committed human trafficking, sex offenses, or violent crimes” and those who “engaged in various forms of financial fraud against the United States (including Paycheck Protection Program (‘PPP’) loan fraud and Medicaid/Medicare fraud).”

It also calls for attorneys to initiate cases against “individuals who further or furthered the unlawful enterprise of criminal gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and drug cartels” and “individuals who engaged in fraud against private individuals, funds, or corporations.”

If you’re interested, you can read the full memo right here.

If you don’t know, naturalization is the process that allows foreigners to legally obtain American citizenship.

It involves a thorough application process that requires the individual to prove they can speak and read/write English, as well as have a solid knowledge of U.S. history.

Grok explained:

Naturalization is the legal process by which a non-citizen acquires citizenship in a country, typically involving meeting requirements like residency, language proficiency, and passing a citizenship test. In the U.S., it grants full citizenship rights, such as voting and holding public office, after fulfilling criteria set by immigration law.

The media is outraged that President Trump’s DOJ is pushing to revoke citizenship from naturalized Americans.

However, denaturalization is nothing new.

Back in the day, it used to be pretty rare. But now, it’s become less so.

In fact, it first started becoming much more common underneath the Obama administration.

Axios broke down the numbers:

How many citizens have been denaturalized?

From 1990-2017, the DOJ filed 305 denaturalization cases, about 11 per year.

The number has surged since President Trump’s first term.

What they’re saying: “Denaturalization is no longer so rare,” noted Cassandra Burke Robertson, a professor at Case Western Reserve University’s law school, in 2019, saying that the rise began under the Obama administration, “which used improved digital tools to identify potential cases of naturalization fraud from years before.”

“But the Trump administration, with its overall immigration crackdown, is taking denaturalization to new levels.”

Robertson also noted that denaturalization was a common political tool of the McCarthy era.

Since January 2017, the USCIS has selected some 2,500 cases for possible denaturalization and referred at least 110 denaturalization cases to the Justice Department for prosecution by the end of August 2018.

The DOJ filed at least 30 denaturalization cases in 2017 — twice the number it filed in 2016, per The Miami Herald.

Still, this directive is a huge development in ridding our nation of the violent crimes and drugs that immigrants often bring with them.

What are your thoughts?

Do you support the denaturalization of American citizens who commit serious crimes like human trafficking or sexual assault?

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