DOJ ramps up plan to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans
Donald Trump’s administration is moving immigration lawyers to the Department of Justice to expedite denaturalization cases against U.S. citizens. Last year, the Justice Department announced the president’s plan to “prioritize and maximally pursue” cases against American citizens, marking a radical expansion of Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
Efforts to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans – people who were not born in America but become citizens – accelerated earlier this year, with instructions that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recommend “100-200 denaturalization cases per month” in 2026.
USCIS is now temporarily transferring a group of agency lawyers to the Justice Department to speed up those cases.