Trump Admin Seeking to De-Naturalize and Deport Longtime U.S. Citizens

In January 2018, Professor Don Moynihan at Georgtown said, "Criminalizing undocumented immigrants, creating chokepoints for refugee applications, slashing the number of legal immigrants. Whats next? Taking away citizenship from naturalized immigrants. And it won't be applied evenly or fairly."

Unfortunately he was accurate as we sit here in October 2019.

The Trump administration is seeking to denaturalize and deport longtime U.S. citizens, seizing on tiny mistakes in the process and putting the status of every naturalized citizen at potential risk.

..... both Republican and Democratic administrations avoided denaturalization in all but the most extreme cases. Between 1990 and 2016, the government denaturalized an average of only 11 people a year, some years none. Most were serious war criminals who had lied about their human-rights offenses to gain American citizenship.

Once Trump took office, however, the gloves came off. 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.

It's a large scale attack on citizenship.  Trump's Republican Party is spending more than $200M to investigate more than 700,000 citizens with the goal of denaturalizing them.

By statute, citizenship obtained through naturalization can be revoked not only for fraud, but also in cases in which the individual, or even the government, makes an inadvertent error in the naturalization process. There is no statute of limitations in civil denaturalization cases, meaning that the government can take away citizenship decades after a person thought himself to be permanently an American.

But these facts should matter to the government when choosing whom to target for denaturalization. Under a Department of Justice policy in place for many decades, denaturalization proceedings should not be brought against those who have been citizens for decades, have close ties to U.S. citizens, and have no criminal record...

This is a focused effort to strip citizenship from naturalized citizens.  It is one of the most terrifying things to come out of the Trump administration.  If they can find a reason to strip citizenship from from naturalized citizens, they can find a reason to strip citizenship from anyone.

Source: https://prospect.org/justice/the-new-war-on-naturalized-citizens/