• 0 Posts
  • 118 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 14th, 2023

help-circle











  • The Trump Administration has launched a denaturalization operation—a project to strip a large
    number of Americans of their citizenship. Denaturalization is a drastic measure that should only
    be taken in the most extreme circumstances. But the administration is dramatically expanding
    denaturalization, using questionable standards and proceedings. As with many other
    components of its agenda, the Trump administration is discarding longstanding legal norms and
    protections by adding U.S citizens to its list of targeted individuals, and thereby sending the
    message that no one is safe in the United States of America.
    These efforts to strip citizenship from Americans are systemic and chilling. They have made
    U.S. citizens fearful that mistakes made years ago on their past applications could be used to
    target them, take away their citizenship, and destroy their lives. The Trump administration’s
    denaturalization efforts have made lawful permanent residents scared to pursue citizenship and
    fully engage civically. What was once a celebratory moment recognizing an immigrant’s
    integration into American life now comes with an undercurrent of fear and suspicion. The Trump
    administration yet again uses draconian and constitutionally questionable tactics in pursuit of its
    nationalist vision of who belongs in the United States.

    https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/document/2018-09-14_Trump_Administrations_Plan_to_Strip_Citizenship_from_Thousands_of_Americans.pdf