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I cannot find the article right now. But while surveying some web sites I saw a headline about the administration looking into "denaturalizing" US citizens who were not born here but went through the process of becoming citizens. I would imagine certain groups would be targeted.
If it is true, we are seeing so many unprecedented actions and plans it makes your head swim. Politically things seem to get darker every day.
GetRidOfThem
(869 posts)Here is the link:
[link:https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/in-america-naturalized-citizens-no-longer-have-an-assumption-of-permanence|
I am a naturalized US citizen...
Girard442
(6,070 posts)He's doing this to play to his racist baase and spread fear through the immigrant population, because fascists can never get enough hate and fear.
Greybnk48
(10,168 posts)How about her parents and sister?
Girard442
(6,070 posts)Donald doesn't have much use for arm candy past its expiration date.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)This is simply outrageous!
awesomerwb1
(4,267 posts)They're attacking immigrants from every possible angle. They will never stop.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)MineralMan
(146,288 posts)Even as, on July 4, there were naturalization ceremonies in many cities in the US, each of those people became a real U.S. citizen upon swearing that oath. Trump might be able to shove non-citizens out the door as soon as they arrive, but it's a much more difficult process to denaturalize existing citizens.
The process, when it occurs, often takes years in court before a person loses citizenship status, and that's rare. Very rare. Naturalized citizens are, in fact, citizens, and any lawyer with any skills at all can tie up the process for years if an attempt is made to denaturalize any of them.
The limited number of courts with such jurisdiction and the limited number of federal government prosecutors available to bring such cases is the primary reason that no such effort will succeed. First the government must present very convincing evidence that fraud was involved in the original naturalization process. That's a high bar, since that process, itself, takes a long time and a good deal of documentation. The reality is that a very, very small percentage of naturalizations are fraudulent.
With regard to all that, Donwald Drumpf is talking out of his ass on this matter.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)later is emerging as a Trump method, though. Arresting and kidnapping the children of people claiming refugee status broke or ignored a number of laws, but he did it anyway.
Look how they're ignoring agreements with foreign born people serving in our military, just tossing them out.
Small lies, mistakes, and inaccuracies on application forms that would have meant little in the past sound all too useful as pretexts to arrest and quickly deport citizens as faits accompli.
This technique has been extensively used during successful "strong man" authoritarian takeovers in other nations. And the most common excuse used then and here "national security."
TomSlick
(11,098 posts)I think this is all posturing for the racist base.
people
(624 posts)He has already gotten away with so much more than I ever would have thought possible. Things he said on the campaign trail that I thought were just words to play to his base are now actual policies - some worse than anything I could have EVER imagined - tearing babies from their mothers. It's despicable. Republicans can change laws and they are pulling away people's rights as fast as they can. It is a little like Hitler when Hitler was beginning except the target here is primarily brown people from south of our border. They want the U.S. all "white" again and will, apparently, do all they can to pull this off. It is shameful and awful.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This is just such a cruel thing to even propose. Why? Will this apply to European naturalized citizens as well, or only people with darker skin? I can't believe what this country is turning into.
pennylane100
(3,425 posts)On the bright side, I could claim my British penion and get free health care. I might even qualify for a subsidized council flat.