Justice department has already identified 384 foreign-born people whose US citizenship it wants to revoke
The Trump administration is reportedly pushing the justice department to pursue hundreds of denaturalization cases, in which Americans born outside of the US are stripped of their citizenship.
The justice department has already identified 384 foreign-born US citizens, whose citizenship it wants to revoke and will begin the process in the coming weeks, according to the New York Times.
The US government can ask a court to remove citizenship status of people who illegally obtained it. In some cases, people who have been denaturalized have been caught lying to officials or caught entering into a false marriage. In other cases, people who commit crimes can be denaturalized.
Last year, the justice department filed a memo, directing the civil division to target the denaturalization of US citizens around the country and added a number of categories of people who should be targeted. Experts say that it opened the door for the Trump administration to continue pursuing its mass deportation agenda.
