Trump’s Justic Department plans to denaturalise 20 million citizens

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- BY T N ASHOK

Trump administration's Department of Justice (DoJ) plans to denaturalize citizens on grounds of fraud in acquiring citizenship, criminal acts or such background and hiding facts in filing papers has led to uncertainties of residency permanency in over 20 million naturalized citizens, while legal experts say the move is unconstitutional. The Justice Department efforts to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans likely violate constitutional rights - Legal and Constitutional expertssay.

‘The Trump administration wants to take away citizenship from naturalized Americans on a massive scale. While a recent Justice Department memo prioritizes national security cases, it directs the department to “maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings in all cases permitted by law and supported by the evidence” across 10 broad priority categories.

Denaturalization is different from deportation, which removes non-citizens from the country. With civil denaturalization, the government files a lawsuit to strip people's U.S. citizenship after they have become citizens, turning them back into non-citizens who can then be deported. The danger is that even a clerical error in spelling of your name in the citizenship filing can be tantamount to fraud in acquiring citizenship.

The government can only do this in specific situations. It must prove someone “illegally procured” citizenship by not meeting the requirements, or that they lied or hid important facts during the citizenship process. The Trump administration’s “maximal enforcement” approach means pursuing any case where evidence might support taking away citizenship, regardless of priority level or strength of evidence.