"When the Trump administration tells you that they're planning on doing something, it's best to believe them ... as long as the thing in question hurts people rather than helps anyone. Promised roll-outs of a new healthcare plan to replace Obamacare? That's apparently never happening. Relief for ever-older and more haggard first-time homebuyers? You're on your own. But if the administration tells you that it wants to target a certain demographic of Americans with punitive Justice Department action? Well, you know they'll end up making time for that."
"A naturalized citizen is someone born outside of the U.S., not born into citizenship, who ultimately obtained full U.S. citizenship after going through the years-long rigmarole of progressing through the labyrinthine American process for doing so. Once this citizenship has been obtained, there's quite a high bar to revoke it-the government needs to demonstrate in a civil or criminal federal court case that not only was there fraud in the process of applying for citizenship, but that said fraud was "material," and had an impact on whether the underlying citizenship claim was ultimately accepted. This is a pretty robust protection, determined by the U.S. Supreme Court relatively recently in 2017's Maslenjak v. United States."
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices received internal guidance imposing strict quotas to dramatically accelerate denaturalization referrals in 2026. Naturalized citizens are those born abroad who obtained U.S. citizenship after a lengthy legal process. Revoking naturalized citizenship requires federal court proof of material fraud affecting eligibility, a high bar affirmed by the Supreme Court in Maslenjak v. United States (2017). From 2017 through 2025, only 120 denaturalizations occurred nationwide. The new guidance directs USCIS to identify and refer many more cases to the Justice Department, increasing risk of citizenship loss for immigrants.
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