The Trump administration wants to take away citizenship from naturalized Americans on a massive scale. While a recent Justice ...

Trump administration launches denaturalization initiative targeting naturalized citizens deemed security threats.

When the Justice Department issued a memo last month with barely a whisper of publicity that provided U.S. attorneys with ...

The Justice Department is ramping up efforts to revoke the citizenship of immigrants who commit crimes or pose a national ...

The Department of Justice is prioritizing revoking citizenship from some naturalized Americans who commit certain crimes, ...

Discover what denaturalization means in the U.S., why it's a growing concern for naturalized citizens, and how a DOJ memo is ...

For decades, the US Department of Justice has used a tool to sniff out former Nazis who lied their way into becoming American citizens: a law that allowed the department to denaturalize, or strip, ...

As the Justice Department prepares to hone in on denaturalization cases for individuals who've committed certain crimes, ...

Denaturalization, explained: how Trump can strip immigrants of their citizenship. A new “denaturalization task force” raises questions about who really counts as American.

Previously posted June 30, 2025: A previous version of this story incorrectly said that denaturalization is one of the top enforcement priorities for the civil rights division.

Justice Department memo outlines priority categories for citizenship revocation, focusing on security threats, violent ...

The benefits of the denaturalization process, Shumate wrote, “include the government’s ability to revoke the citizenship of individuals who engaged in the commission of war crimes ...