UPDATE: Trump Admin Moves Forward To Denaturalize and Deport Americans

Nearly two years ago in July 2018, Smart Dissent posted about a new task force under US Citizenship and Immigration Services to revoke citizenship - click our post here.

In October 2019, Smart Dissent posted that the task force was well underway, well-funded, and going after Americans - click our post here.

The government recently announced it will be investigating 700,000 naturalized citizens, and it is sparing no expense. To staff the effort, the government has opened a new office in Los Angeles and is in the process of hiring 300 special agents and 212 support personnel to investigate denaturalization as well as immigration benefits fraud, at a cost of $207.6 million.

Now it's all extremely official.  Republicans are funding hundreds of millions of dollars to deport Americans.

The Justice Department said Wednesday [2/26/20] that it had created an official section in its immigration office to strip citizenship rights from [AMERICANS].

The new section will replace the team of immigration lawyers who have been asked to focus on cases that revoke citizenship.... The move promises to further expand a practice that was once used infrequently, but that the Trump administration has increasingly turned to as part of its immigration crackdown.

These are AMERICAN CITIZENS.  They may have come from other countries just like nearly every one of our family members, but they are citizens now.  This is insanity.

....Stephen Miller, the White House aide who has driven much of Trump’s immigration policy, said denaturalization could be used as part of a broad pushback on immigration.

....denaturalizations have ramped up under the Trump administration: Of the 228 denaturalization cases that the department has filed since 2008, about 40 percent of them were filed since 2017.... And over the past three years, denaturalization case referrals to the department have increased 600 percent.

Justice Department immigration lawyers have expressed worries that denaturalizations could be broadly used to strip citizenship....

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/us/politics/denaturalization-immigrants-justice-department.html

http://smartdissent.com/article/trump-admin-seeking-de-naturalize-and-deport-longtime-us-citizens

http://smartdissent.com/article/us-citizenship-and-immigration-services-creates-task-force-revoke