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blondebanshee

(353 posts)
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 12:30 PM Jun 2018

The Trump Administration Is Going After Naturalized Citizens Now

The U.S. government agency that oversees immigration applications is launching an office that will focus on identifying Americans who are suspected of cheating to get their citizenship and seek to strip them of it.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L. Francis Cissna told The Associated Press in an interview that his agency is hiring several dozen lawyers and immigration officers to review cases of immigrants who were ordered deported and are suspected of using fake identities to later get green cards and citizenship through naturalization.


[link:https://apnews.com/1da389a535684a5f9d0da74081c242f3|

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The Trump Administration Is Going After Naturalized Citizens Now (Original Post) blondebanshee Jun 2018 OP
Only those that cheated! atreides1 Jun 2018 #1
They attack unsympathetic targets first DBoon Jun 2018 #9
Like Melanie? nt wcmagumba Jun 2018 #2
Melania atreides1 Jun 2018 #4
I will always know her as Melanie... wcmagumba Jun 2018 #5
Malaria? Melanoma? Fozzledick Jun 2018 #8
Melodrama treestar Jun 2018 #12
t-rump's wife to name one. . . . Iliyah Jun 2018 #3
Hey, if Melanie is good enough Polly Hennessey Jun 2018 #6
How long will it be before dual citizenship will no longer be accepted in the U.S.? Doreen Jun 2018 #7
Step by step. He's already talked about revoking citizenship for people who don't respect the flag. blondebanshee Jun 2018 #10
Melania should be the first one investigated SoCalNative Jun 2018 #11
And her parents MiniMe Jun 2018 #13

DBoon

(22,369 posts)
9. They attack unsympathetic targets first
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 01:10 PM
Jun 2018

The slowly escalate, until political opponents are stripped of their citizenship due to irregularities in their grandparents' immigration

This is why birthright citizenship is so important and why the right hates it so much

blondebanshee

(353 posts)
10. Step by step. He's already talked about revoking citizenship for people who don't respect the flag.
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 01:14 PM
Jun 2018

His advisors have said citizenship should be revoked for Muslim-Americans. I think we should be afraid.

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