Trump team is pushing to yank American citizenship from more foreign-born people
Source: The Independent
Thursday 18 December 2025 08:29 EST
The Trump administration is planning to strip more foreign-born Americans of their citizenship, marking the latest escalation in the presidents crackdown on immigration, according to a new report.
Guidance provided to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices requests that they supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month in 2026, The New York Times reported.
Individuals may only be legally stripped of their U.S. citizenship for a few specific reasons, such as if they committed fraud during the citizenship application process. Historically, this has been a rare occurrence. Less than 200 cases had been filed in the past eight years. And between 1990 and 2017, the federal government brought an average of 11 cases, according to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.
But, the Trump administration which has pledged to carry out the largest deportation program in American history has sought to use every available mechanism to target immigrants. Its no secret that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services war on fraud includes prioritizing those whove unlawfully obtained U.S. citizenship especially under the previous administration, Matthew Tragesser, a USCIS. spokesman, told the Times.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-remove-american-citizenship-foreign-born-b2887007.html
sdfernando
(6,019 posts)didn't/doesn't rise to the level of genius..
So she should be one of the first to go.
2naSalit
(99,989 posts)Through fraud too.
2naSalit
(99,989 posts)I'd almost be okay with it if the WH burned down and the shitneck supreme and his minions were inside and couldn't get out.
mwb970
(12,069 posts)mwb970
(12,069 posts)Mira
(22,645 posts)I plan to take it out and carry it on my body. Though I'm not sure that all the ICE agents can read, my clearly white skin may keep me safe a little longer. Also, I don't have Melanoma's inability to lose an accent.
VMA131Marine
(5,170 posts)I shouldnt need to, obviously, since I was naturalised 40 years ago AND Im a veteran. I just dont trust Trump as far as I can throw his corpulent presence.
FakeNoose
(40,163 posts)Because that's what it sounds like, they're going after the children of American parents who enlisted in the military, and shipped overseas. Some of those military personnel were married and became parents while they served in the armed forces. Their kids are just as American as any of us who were born here!
Bayard
(28,548 posts)Stationed in Germany when my great-niece was born. Oh, and horrors--her husband is also Hispanic, but born in Calif.
AverageOldGuy
(3,336 posts)That is, the CHILDREN were born outside the US, not the military personnel.
I was on active duty 1967 - 1995. Both my children were born In Germany in a military hospital. The hospital gave us a birth certificate which we took to the US Consulate in Frankfurt where we were issued a Consular Report of US Citizen Born Abroad.
My children are now in their late 50's, both of them keep the original of that document in safe deposit box and keep copies at home. Both have US passports. My son was on active duty for 21 years during which he held very high security clearances and special access
Neither my son or daughter are fans of Trump and are outspoken about it. Now they wonder if he will come after them because of their social media comments and attempt to revoke their citizenship.
This shit cannot stand. But it may.
BumRushDaShow
(165,703 posts)whose father was in the military and his son John was born in Panama (and at an off base hospital too IIRC). That whole thing came up during the birther nonsense going on when he was running against Obama.
Polybius
(21,509 posts)Although his case is a lot different.
BumRushDaShow
(165,703 posts)and neither parent was in the military when he was born in Canada (and his father wasn't a U.S. citizen either).
Polybius
(21,509 posts)Not sure what the courts would say, however.
BumRushDaShow
(165,703 posts)when he was considering a run in the 2016 GOP clown car primary - Ted Cruz Renounces Newly Discovered Canadian Citizenship