Trump team is pushing to yank American citizenship from more foreign-born people [View all]

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 president’s 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. “It’s no secret that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ war on fraud includes prioritizing those who’ve 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