Several posts have discussed naturalization and denaturalization.
The U.S. Department of Justice has begun to prioritize stripping naturalized Americans of their citizenship when charged with crimes, according to a recent memo.
Why it matters: It ramps up the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, which it has expanded to target, deport and detain legal permanent residents and citizens.
Driving the news: The DOJ directed attorneys to prioritize denaturalization in cases where naturalized citizens commit crimes, per the memo.
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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.
