DOJ targets hundreds of foreign-born Americans in push to revoke citizenship

Trump aiming to denaturalize hundreds of US citizens. What to know

The Trump administration is ramping up efforts to crack down on foreign-born Americans found to have committed fraud or other infractions.

DOJ targets hundreds of foreign-born Americans in push to revoke citizenship

The Justice Department is targeting at least 300 foreign-born Americans to possibly revoke their citizenship as part of the Trump administration’s effort to ramp up denaturalization, according to a person familiar with the investigations. A Justice Department official told NBC News the number was in the hundreds. NBC News previously reported that the Trump administration was dramatically expanding an effort to revoke U.S. citizenship for foreign…

Justice Department’s effort to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans could face widespread judicial pushback

by Cassandra Burke Robertson, Case Western Reserve University and Irina D. Manta, Hofstra University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The Justice Department has identified 384 foreign-born Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke as “the first wave” of such measures, according to recent reporting by The New York Times. These cases are being assigned to prosecutors in 39 U.S. attorney’s offices…