DOJ aggressively prioritizing efforts to strip some Americans of their U.S. citizenship.

[Demovictory9]

DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship : NPR https://share.google/jtoilhMpdmDNPV42e

The Justice Department is aggressively prioritizing efforts to strip some Americans of their U.S. citizenship.

Department leadership is directing its attorneys to prioritize denaturalization in cases involving naturalized citizens who commit certain crimes — and giving district attorneys wider discretion on when to pursue this tactic, according to a June 11 memo published online. The move is aimed at U.S. citizens who were not born in the country; according to data from 2023, close to 25 million immigrants were naturalized citizens.

At least one person has already been denaturalized in recent weeks. On June 13, a judge ordered the revocation of the citizenship of Elliott Duke, who uses they/them pronouns. Duke is an American military veteran originally from the U.K. who was convicted for distributing child sexual abuse material — something they later admitted they were doing prior to becoming a U.S. citizen.

Denaturalization is a tactic that was heavily used during the McCarthy era of the late 1940's and the early 1950's and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's meant to strip citizenship from those who may have lied about their criminal convictions or membership in illegal groups like the Nazi party, or communists during McCarthyism, on their citizenship applications.

[spanone]

1. Are they starting with their political enemies first?

Would not surprise me.

[TommyT139]

4. "giving district attorneys wider discretion on when to pursue this tactic"

So...pretty much, yes.

I could be wrong - maybe we start seeing all those who aided Trump, bought his apartments, dumped cash into the dark money pits etc etc get sent back to Russia.

Looking for and not finding the "not holding my breath" smiley.

[Ping Tung]

2. They're spreading fear so everyone keerps their heads down and mouths shut.

[pandr32]

3. They should lose their jobs.

UnAmerican asshats.

[Abnredleg]

5. If you lie about crimes you committed on your application

Then why shouldn’t you have your citizenship revoked? You committed fraud and were never eligible for citizenship to begin with. The person mentioned in the article was distributing child pornography and lied about it on his application- I have no problem this particular case.

The danger, of course, is what crimes they use to denaturalize, but I personally don’t have any issues with people who commit violent crimes and lie about it on the application being denaturalized.

[purple_haze]

8. deport child pornographers

i have no issue with this

[Greg_In_SF]

9. Indeed

They have no place here.

[Johnny2X2X]

6. To people who don't think this is going to be expanded

Just study history.

We're already deporting US citizens. ICE is already detaining US citizens for things their social media has about Trump.

You and I are under threat. If you do not support Trump, your citizenship can be stripped and you can be sent to a prison camp in another country without even a hint of due process. That's where we're heading.

[Walleye]

7. I don't think anybody in this administration knows the difference between common criminal behavior and a national

Security threat. We can take care of crimes in our courts here we don’t have to be deporting criminals. They are no threat to the republic.