US EditionLaw used to kick out Nazis could be used to strip citizenship from many more Americans
- The U.S. Department of Justice issued a memo directing attorneys to aggressively pursue denaturalization of naturalized citizens on grounds of fraud or national security risks.
- This effort stems from a rarely used McCarthy-era law originally designed to remove communists and later applied to deport Nazi collaborators.
- Legal experts warn that the broad memo could enable the government to target political opponents and retroactively scrutinize citizenship applications, causing chilling effects on free speech.
- During Trump's first administration, 102 denaturalization cases were filed, with five new cases appearing in the first five months after his 2025 return, illustrating increased enforcement.
- The expanded use of this law against naturalized citizens suggests potential growth in immigration enforcement that may raise constitutional and civil rights concerns.
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Trump is charging immigrants under a WWII-era law. It triggered a legal showdown in Louisiana.
Federal prosecutors in New Orleans this spring charged five immigrants with petty offenses for failing to register with the government, invoking a little-used World War II-era law in a fresh bid by the Trump administration to penalize illegal immigration.
CNN Sinks Further: Now, They’re Questioning the Citizenship of Trump’s Kids
(Red State)—Just when you thought the legacy media couldn’t sink any deeper, CNN steps up and says, “Hold my beer.” The latest in a long series of eye-rollers comes from CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers, who is suggesting there may be some reason to look into revoking the citizenship statuses of all of President Trump’s kids. They’re all American citizens, of course, and there’s no reason to change that. Sellers is just delivering anothe…
For decades, the US Department of Justice has used a tool to uncover former Nazis who lied to become American citizens: a law that allowed the Department to denaturalize, or strip, the citizenship of criminals who falsified their documents or hid their past "on the other side of the law."
Trump administration wants to expand anti-Nazi law to target critics: report
Based upon a memo issued by the Justice Department last month, Donald Trump's administration wants to ramp up efforts to purge the country not only of undocumented immigrants but also naturalized citizens.CNN is reporting that the president's DOJ has been examining ways to expand the scope of a law ...
'Flatly inconsistent with our democratic system': Trump DOJ eyes anti-Nazi law to expel Americans
CNN reports the U.S. Department of Justice is looking to repurpose an old anti-Nazi law to ensnare targets of the Trump administration.The statute is part of a McCarthy-era law first established to remove communists during the “red scare” of the 1950s, but CNN reports it has primarily been used to remove war criminals. In 1979, the Justice Department established a unit that used the statute to deport hundreds of people who assisted Germany’s Naz…
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