"The Trump administration is ramping up efforts to strip more naturalized immigrants of their U.S. citizenship. That's according to a report in The New York Times, which found internal guidance issued this week to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices asked that they supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100 to 200 denaturalization cases per month in the next fiscal year. The Times reports it would represent a "massive escalation of denaturalization in the modern era.""
"The news comes less than two weeks after the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case to decide the constitutionality of President Trump's executive order aiming to end birthright citizenship. "During the first Trump administration, they had 25 [denaturalization] cases per year, and ... for the 15 years before the first Trump administration, they had fewer than 15 cases per year," says Mae Ngai, professor of Asian American studies and history at Columbia University. "So this is an incredible escalation.""
The Trump administration instructed U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices to provide the Office of Immigration Litigation with 100 to 200 denaturalization cases per month in the next fiscal year. That target would constitute a massive escalation from prior years, when denaturalization actions numbered roughly 25 cases per year during the first Trump administration and fewer than 15 per year in the preceding 15-year period. The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case on the constitutionality of an executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. The administration also issued a recent threat to end the visa diversity (green card) program.
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