Emmer introduces new bill to strip citizenship from fraudsters and terrorists: 'You're going home'

Tom Emmer’s Message to Fraudsters: You Don’t Get to Keep the Prize

The bill’s name is a wink. The politics behind it are not. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer is preparing to introduce the Stop Citizenship Abuse and Misrepresentation Act — the SCAM Act — a proposal designed to make it easier for the federal government to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans convicted of fraud and other serious offenses. The legislation would clarify what evidence federal officials can use to prove a person did not meet the…

Emmer introduces new bill to strip citizenship from fraudsters and terrorists: 'You're going home'

A new GOP bill would allow denaturalization of naturalized citizens convicted of fraud, terrorism ties or aggravated felonies within 10 years.

BILL INTRODUCED TO STRIP NATURALIZED CITIZENS OF CITIZENSHIP FOR FELONY CONVICTION

BILL: S.3606 – A bill to subject aliens convicted of fraud to deportation and to bestow concurrent jurisdiction to revoke the citizenship of any naturalized United States citizen convicted of fraud on any court that enters such a conviction. Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3606/actions#:~:text=01/08/2026%20Introduced%20in%20Senate,-Site%20Content A naturalized U.S. citizen is a person born in another country who vo…