The Trump administration is fast-tracking the deportation of immigrants, including legal ones, who pose a national security threat, endanger the lives of Americans, or commit crimes on U.S. soil. A recent Department of Justice (DOJ) memo instructed directing U.S. attorneys to pursue “denaturalizing proceedings” against legal immigrants who commit crimes.
Many naturalized residents have engaged in various acts of violence, including murder, rape, and anti-Semitism. The Trump administration seeks to put an end to this.
“The benefits of civil denaturalization include the government’s ability to revoke the citizenship of individuals who engaged in the commission of war crimes, extrajudicial killings, or other serious human rights abuses; to remove naturalized criminals, gang members, or, indeed, any individuals convicted of crimes who pose an ongoing threat to the United States; and to prevent convicted terrorists from returning to U.S. soil or traveling internationally on a U.S. passport,” Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate wrote.
According to Shumate, civil denaturalization proceedings allow the government to revoke the citizenship of individuals involved in serious crimes such as war crimes, extrajudicial killings, gang activity, and war crimes. Shumate stressed that denaturalization would “prevent convicted terrorists from returning to U.S. soil or traveling internationally on a U.S. passport.”
The Deputy Attorney General also noted that the DOJ may institute civil proceedings to denaturalize individuals who falsely acquired U.S. citizenship by concealing material facts or misrepresenting themselves.
“The Department of Justice may institute civil proceedings to revoke a person’s United States citizenship if an individual either ‘illegally procured’ naturalization or procured naturalization by ‘concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation,’” Shumate added.
Recently, U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) called for the investigation and deportation of the Marxist Muslim Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for potentially concealing the material fact of his alleged allegiance to convicted terrorist financiers.
“Publicly praising the [Holy Land Five] Foundation’s convicted leadership as ‘my guys’ raises serious concerns about whether Mr. Mamdani held affiliations or sympathies he failed to disclose during the naturalization process,” Rep. Ogles stated.
So far, the Department of Justice has swiftly secured the denaturalization of a convicted child sexual abuse material (CSAM) criminal, Elliott Duke, a United Kingdom national, who enlisted in the U.S. Army by hiding his involvement in the illegal activity.
Apparently, Duke had obtained his U.S. citizenship after denying that he had committed any crime that resulted in his arrest, while failing to disclose his involvement in the activity.
When arrested for the receipt and distribution of child sex abuse material, Duke confessed that he had engaged in the same activity before and after his naturalization process.
“If you commit serious crimes before you become a U.S. citizen and then lie about them during your naturalization process, the Justice Department will discover the truth and come after you,” insisted Shumate.
Nonetheless, lefties suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome will find every excuse imaginable to defend people being denaturalized for committing serious crimes against law-abiding Americans.
If a person is not guilty of anything wrong, they should have no problems with this law.
Defending people who have done things that violate the law, why would somebody do that?
There is an old saying about having unprotected sex. It goes something like “you are having sex with everybody that your partner has had sex with.” So, if you are defending criminals who have hurt others, those who are defending those criminals have also hurt those others and they will be responsible for anybody who is hurt in the future as well.
Time to follow the law. No one is above the law, no one.
As a naturalized US citizen I know that this provision to take away citizenship for lying on the initial form was always there. Anybody can read it!!!
Exactly. I’m also a naturalized US citizen. I don’t think it is legal to denaturalize someone if they commit a crime after becoming a US citizen though. This will no doubt more than likely become an issue that the Supreme Court will have to resolve.