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The Department of Justice moved to strip citizenship from 10 people accused of lying their way into citizenship, marking an escalation in denaturalization enforcement.
The Department of Justice moved to strip citizenship from 10 people accused of lying during the naturalization process. This marks an escalation in denaturalization enforcement, a tool that had been rarely used before the current administration. Denaturalization removes citizenship retroactively, effectively making someone a non-citizen and potential deportation target.
Denaturalization is a weapon that had sat mostly unused because stripping citizenship is extreme—it's reversing a legal status that's supposed to be permanent. Ten cases at once signals this is now a regular enforcement priority. The DOJ is looking backwards through years or decades of naturalization records, looking for any misstatement on the original application. This creates ongoing uncertainty for naturalized citizens and fundamentally changes what a citizenship certificate means—it's no longer a guarantee, it's provisional.
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