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Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Left image by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images; image of Attorney General Pam Bondi by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) On June 11, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a memo instructing federal prosecutors to “prioritize and maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings in all cases permitted by law and supported by the evidence.” The directive, signed by Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate, elevates citizenship revocation to one of the Civil Division’s top five enforcement priorities. The Trump administration is framing the expansion as a matter of public safety, with a DOJ spokesperson stating that “those who gain...

...The directive appears to be a push towards a larger denaturalization effort that fits with the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policies. These could leave some of the millions of naturalized American citizens at risk of losing their status and being deported.... ....People who have committed violent crimes, are members or associates of gangs and drug cartels or have committed fraud should also be prioritized, the memo, issued by the head of the DOJ’s Civil Division, said. But for many officials and experts, the real concern, they say, is that it is designed to strike fear in the hearts of legal...

Of all the countries in Europe you would expect to be liberal on immigration policies, Sweden and Denmark would be near the top of the list. We all know that Poland and Hungary are standing firm on border issues. Georgia Meloni in Italy won on a "get strict "policy on immigration. But Sweden and Denmark? Yep. It turns out that they are now hard core when it comes to taking back their countries. Sweden is even paying migrants to pack up and leave. In other words, they're going in the direction of Danish policy. It'll be interesting to see if...

The Justice Department is beginning to strip naturalized Americans charged with crimes of their citizenship.This is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on criminal migrants. The Justice Department issued a memo on June 11 that details a list of priorities — especially concerning denaturalization. (snip) “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.’”

The Department of Justice released a memo, published on June 11, that could strip some Americans of their citizenship, reports The Guardian. The memo instructs attorneys in the department to conduct proceedings to revoke a person’s citizenship in the event they have committed certain crimes. The memo says if someone’s citizenship was “illegally procured” or procured “by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation,” attorneys in the department should work to revoke their citizenship. The memo references 25 million U.S. citizens who were born abroad and subsequently immigrated to the country. It also lists 10 categories for denaturalization....

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,...

Deporting "native born" terrorist supporters from America. Terrorists running around cities waving the flags of Islamic terror groups could have easily been removed from the United States, even if they were born in this country, until the 1960s.That’s when the Warren Court detonated one of the ‘bombs’ buried in the 14th Amendment.The 14th Amendment, passed during a period of suspension of civil liberties and legal norms after the Civil War, was an example of why the Framers made it so difficult to add amendments to the Constitution and why adding them is usually a bad idea. Unconstitutional, punitive and sloppily...

The Civil Division’s Denaturalization Section Will Investigate and Litigate the Denaturalization of Terrorists, War Criminals, Sex Offenders, and Other Fraudsters The Department of Justice today announced the creation of a section dedicated to investigating and litigating revocation of naturalization.  The Denaturalization Section will join the existing sections within the Civil Division’s Office of Immigration Litigation—the District Court Section and the Appellate Section.  This move underscores the Department’s commitment to bring justice to terrorists, war criminals, sex offenders, and other fraudsters who illegally obtained naturalization. While the Office of Immigration Litigation already has achieved great success in the denaturalization cases it...

The Trump administration is establishing a new section within the Justice Department to deal with the process of removing citizenship from foreign-born individuals who fraudulently obtained citizenship by failing to disclose past convictions for serious crimes -- including terrorism and war crimes. The section, which will be within the DOJ’s Office of Immigration Litigation, will be dedicated to denaturalizing those who had failed to disclose they had been involved in criminal activity on their N-400 form for naturalization. It requires the government to show that citizenship was obtained illegally or "procured by concealment of a material fact or by willful...

This is "deplorables" on steroids . . . On her MSNBC show this morning, Joy Reid slurred Trump supporters as a bunch of sadists who want to see people at the border cruelly mistreated.Here was Reid. "I think I quote you every week, Adam: the cruelty is the point. That’s why they’re doing it, right? His base wants to see this. And so he’s showing them that he can dehumanize them. Isn’t that message coming from the White House, that essentially you don’t have to treat these people like human beings. Who cares?" Get the rest of the story and...

Officials stripped a New Jersey resident of his citizenship because they said he used a false name when he entered the United States more than 25 years ago. Baljinder Singh became the first person to be denaturalized under Operation Janus, a Homeland Security Department initiative that revokes citizenship of those who circumvented background checks during the naturalization process. A judge revoked his citizenship Friday, according to the U.S. Justice Department, which announced the ruling Tuesday. Assistant Attorney General Chad Readler said Singh “exploited” the U.S. immigration system, “which undermines both the nation’s security and our lawful immigration system.” Federal authorities...

The Trump administration is trying to strip citizenship away from four Somalis who allegedly lied in the process of using the Diversity Visa Program.“For decades, the American people have begged and pleaded with their government for a lawful system of immigration that serves the national interest—a system that has as its foremost priorities their safety, their jobs, and their well-being,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement Monday. “The current immigration system is easily abused by fraudsters and nefarious actors, and that’s certainly true of the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program.”The Diversity Visa Program has come under criticism after a...

The Justice Department moved Monday to strip citizenship from four Somali immigrants who prosecutors say lied about being a family, and managed to defraud the Diversity Visa Lottery program that Republicans are aiming to nix. The government says one woman, Fosia Abdi Adan, won the lottery in 2000 and then brought in two other people as her husband and children, using a fake marriage certificate. The prosecutions come a week after the Diversity Lottery was in the news as the immigration program used by the suspect in last week’s terrorist truck attack in New York City. “The current immigration system...

As I wrote last week, any serious strategy against ISIS has to prevent Jihadists with US citizenship from entering this country after getting training abroad. This is a lot harder than it should be since a series of Supreme Court decisions and State Department action have made what used to be a routine procedure into a process that is rarely used. “I therefore formally renounce my oath of office as well as any other implicit or explicit oaths I have made in the past … This includes my oath of U.S. citizenship,” Hasan declared.By his own admission, Nidal Hasan is...