Trump DOJ to prioritize denaturalization cases

A memo out to all civil division employees of the Department of Justice details policy objectives of the administration and how they should be enforced. The memo from Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate details the need to prioritize enforcement of existing laws, including those on denaturalization. Denaturalization is the process through which someone who has already become a citizen through the naturalization process has their citizenship revoked.

The circumstances under which a person can be denaturalized involve the commission of serious criminal acts. These include having obtained citizenship under false pretences, war crimes, extrajudicial killings, other human rights abuses, and gang membership. Denaturalization can also occur to prevent convicted terrorists from returning to the United States or from traveling under the banner of a US passport.

The memo states that civil proceedings can be used 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.'"

"The Civil Division," it reads, "shall prioritize and maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings in all cases permitted by law and supported by the evidence. To promote the pursuit of all viable denaturalization cases available under 8 U.S.C. § 1451 and maintain the integrity of the naturalization system while simultaneously ensuring an appropriate allocation of resources, the Civil Division has established the following categories for denaturalization cases:

There are nearly 25 million naturalized citizens in the United States and recently, Elliott Duke's citizenship was revoked. On June 13, per NPR, "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 the process through which someone who has already become a citizen through the naturalization process has their citizenship revoked.

Normally I don’t like multisyllabic words, they don’t put a picture in your mind. This one does.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/legal/immigration-law/can-us-citizenship-be-revoked/

Becoming a Member of Certain Organizations After Naturalization
If you become a member of the Communist Party, a terrorist organization or any totalitarian party within five years of becoming naturalized, you could be subject to denaturalization.

That’s because the U.S. government believes membership in these organizations shows you can’t meet the requirements of being attached to the U.S. Constitution and “well-disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States.”

I was thinking a certain somebody who married her brother

I believe that one is at the top of everyone’s list.

Below is the criteria:

“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;

“Cases against individuals who engaged in torture, war crimes, or other human rights violations;

“Cases against individuals who further or furthered the unlawful enterprise of criminal gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and drug cartels;

“Cases against individuals who committed felonies that were not disclosed during the naturalization process;

“Cases against individuals who committed human trafficking, sex offenses, or violent crimes;

“Cases against individuals who engaged in various forms of financial fraud against the United States (including Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loan fraud and Medicaid/Medicare fraud);

“Cases against individuals who engaged in fraud against private individuals, funds, or corporations;

“Cases against individuals who acquired naturalization through government corruption, fraud, or material misrepresentations, not otherwise addressed by another priority;

“Cases referred by a United States Attorney’s Office or in connection with pending criminal charges, if those charges do not fit within one of the other priorities; and

“Any other cases referred to the Civil Division that the Division determines to be sufficiently important to pursue.”

Remember the Minnesota defendants that stole millions in taxpayer funds with their fake “Feed Our Children” program? Hmmmmmm

This could get interesting really really fast!

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