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Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-07-01T16:32:31.526Z
"We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
karynnj
(61,094 posts)Three generations of poor values. four if you count his kids, some of whom are banned from being on charity boards
UTUSN
(77,795 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(182,091 posts)The recent memo encourages the Justice Departments Civil Division to prioritize efforts to strip some Americans of their citizenship.
MSNBC: Trumpâs DOJ issues memo on plan to strip citizenship from some naturalized Americans www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
— (@jwwcan.bsky.social) 2025-06-30T22:45:43.522Z
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/denaturalization-citizens-justice-department-trump-rcna216073
NPR reported Monday on a Justice Department memo from June 11, which advises prosecutors in the DOJs Civil Division to prioritize the denaturalization of various naturalized citizens over alleged infractions ranging from war crimes to material misrepresentations in their citizenship applications.
In his first term, Trump expanded former President Barack Obamas denaturalization policies. An expert told NPR why the new memos call to use civil litigation for this effort is particularly disturbing:
The DOJ memo says that the federal government will pursue denaturalization cases via civil litigation an especially concerning move, said Cassandra Robertson, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University. In civil proceedings, any individual subject to denaturalization is not entitled to an attorney, Robertson said; there is also a lower burden of proof for the government to reach, and it is far easier and faster to reach a conclusion in these cases. Robertson says that stripping Americans of citizenship through civil litigation violates due process and infringes on the rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.
On the heels of Fridays Supreme Court ruling in the birthright citizenship case which undercut lower courts ability to stop the executive branch from pursuing policies of disputed legality its safe to wonder whether and how the administration might wield its powers to target more Americans.
The DOJ memo asserts a broad latitude for interpretation as to what conduct might warrant denaturalization proceedings against a citizen. It lays out a list of transgressions, including torture and human trafficking, but also calls on the DOJs Civil Division to target an individual that either illegally procured naturalization or procured naturalization by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation and, rather vaguely, individuals who pose a potential danger to national security. The memo also prioritizes the ominously open-ended any other cases ... that the Division determines to be sufficiently important to pursue.
dalton99a
(95,310 posts)MiHale
(13,175 posts)Self- deport
bdamomma
(69,629 posts)Talking about himself, he is bad to the bone.
tulipsandroses
(8,299 posts)Don't allow him to wiggle out of it. If you are talking about people that hit people over the head, what about the J6ers?
John Farmer
(410 posts)the denaturalization and deportation of naturalized citizens who commit "civil offenses."
Civil offenses go all the way down to parking violations!
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