Here I am, you coward. I'm naturalized. Come after me first.

[dalton99a]

https://www.salon.com/2018/07/25/trump-targets-naturalized-citizens/

Trump targets naturalized citizens
Here I am, you coward. I’m naturalized. Come after me first.
Lucian K. Truscott IV
July 25, 2018 11:00pm (UTC)

The administration of Donald Trump is the first in memory to make taking away rights and benefits of Americans its greatest priority.

Let’s make a list of everything the Trump administration has taken away or tried to take away since he’s been in office.

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Last month, L. Francis Cissna, the director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, announced that his department is forming a task force to go after thousands of naturalized American citizens and strip them of their citizenship. According to the Chicago Sun Times, “The government agency is hiring dozens of lawyers to look for evidence of discrepancies in citizenship applications and refer cases to the Justice Department for denaturalization proceedings. The new task force reverses decades of policy in which denaturalization was rare. The last time the government so actively sought to denaturalize and deport citizens was during the McCarthy period.”

According to a recent article in The Hill, the “Trump administration is sending a clear signal to all naturalized citizens: They are under review and vulnerable.”

Targeting naturalized citizens is a clear effort to make them second class citizens. The Trump administration is sending a signal that if you weren’t born here — and in some cases, even if you were — you’re not fully American like the rest of us. It’s an obvious attempt at intimidation intended to restrict the civic engagement of immigrants. Even their right to vote will be affected if naturalized citizens, fearing investigations into how they got their citizenship papers, become less likely to register.

Well, you know who I suggest they come after first? Me.

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[riversedge]

1. good gawd!! what next?

Link to tweet

[Doreen]

2. Does this mean that someone I know may be in danger of being deported?

I know someone born in Germany came over here at age 5 and at sometime became naturalized and is now 70. This person has two brothers born here in the states. Problem is their mother became naturalized but not their father. Is there a possibility they will be singled out also? I really worry about this. I know that trump and his goons do not like Germans so I do not see them leaving them alone anymore than the other groups of people. I really loath this administration.

[MyOwnPeace]

3. Probably pretty safe.........

being from Germany he's not the "wrong color........."

[Doreen]

5. Yeah, but he is Catholic.

[gordianot]

4. Donald could use this to keep his wives in order.