📜DOJ Launches Campaign to Strip Citizenship from 25 Million Naturalized Americans
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+1 moreA June 11, 2025 DOJ memo directs federal attorneys to "maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings" against naturalized citizens, targeting 25 million Americans who weren't born here. The campaign uses civil proceedings that deny defendants jury trials and government-provided attorneys while applying lower burdens of proof to revoke citizenship.
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Why This Matters
Second-class citizenship creates permanent vulnerability:
25 million naturalized Americans now face potential citizenship revocation through civil proceedings that deny basic due process rights like jury trials and appointed attorneys that criminal defendants receive
McCarthyist political targeting resurfaces:
DOJ specifically targets critics of Israel's Gaza policies and diversity advocates under vague "national security" and "antisemitism" categories, echoing 1950s campaigns that stripped citizenship from political dissidents
Constitutional due process protections eliminated:
Civil denaturalization requires only "clear and convincing" evidence rather than "beyond reasonable doubt," while defendants must pay for their own legal defense against federal prosecutors with unlimited resources
Families face multigenerational punishment:
When naturalized parents lose citizenship, their minor children's derivative citizenship can also be revoked, creating stateless families vulnerable to deportation despite decades of legal residence
Chilling effect suppresses democratic participation:
The denaturalization threat deters legal immigrants from seeking citizenship and intimidates naturalized Americans from exercising First Amendment rights, undermining both civic participation and constitutional protections
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Approximately how many naturalized American citizens could be targeted by Trump's denaturalization campaign?
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Civil denaturalization proceedings differ from criminal cases because defendants:
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The DOJ memo directing denaturalization efforts was issued by:
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Historical precedent for mass denaturalization efforts occurred during:
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The first person denaturalized under Trump’s new campaign was:
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The DOJ memo specifically targets denaturalization based on:
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Between 1990 and 2017, denaturalization cases averaged approximately:
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When naturalized parents lose citizenship, their minor children:
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Legal experts warn that denaturalization efforts could target:
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Denaturalization efforts expanded significantly under which previous administration before Trump?
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Stephen Miller’s October 2023 promise described the “denaturalization project” as:
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MAGA politicians have specifically called for denaturalizing which elected officials?
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The Supreme Court’s 1967 Afroyim v. Rusk decision established that:
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Legal scholars warn denaturalization campaigns function as:
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Operation Janus originally targeted individuals who might:
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Trump’s denaturalization efforts specifically target criticism of:
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