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Trump’s justice department issues directive to strip naturalized Americans of citizenship for criminal offenses (www.theguardian.com)

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The Trump administration has codified its efforts to strip some Americans of their US citizenship in a recently published justice department memo that directs attorneys to prioritize denaturalization for naturalized citizens who commit certain crimes.

The memo, published on 11 June, calls on attorneys in the department to institute civil proceedings to revoke a person’s United States citizenship if an individual either “illegally procured” naturalization or procured naturalization by “concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation”.

At the center of the move are the estimated 25 million US citizens who immigrated to the country after being born abroad, according to data from 2023 – and it lists 10 different priority categories for denaturalization.

According to the memo, those subjected to civil proceedings are not entitled to an attorney like they are in criminal cases. And the government has a lighter burden of proof in civil cases than they do in criminal ones.

Edit: According to the Miami Herald, it depends on where you live:

The Supreme Court’s ruling means the judges’ injunctions blocking Trump’s executive order only affect the jurisdictions where immigrant groups filed their lawsuits — leaving the rest of the country, including Florida, subject to the president’s citizenship order. The turn of events is likely to lead to more federal lawsuits, including a class action case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union in New Hampshire on Friday.

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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How about no...when do we get out and just tell them no? They can run us over with tanks, drop bomb, etc. Its coming, just a matter of when the civil war starts, and who fires the first shot. If they dont want to participate faithfully in the United States, and give preferential treatment, withhold disaster aid funding, etc, then whats the point of being part of the Union?

These fuck heads think we'll just run scared with our tail between our legs, and thats not true. Nobody wins in a civil war, but thats what they're gonna get.

[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

That is what needs to happen. Unfortunately the issue is that they start with messaging like this to make the vast majority of the country think they're safe.

Its only going to be 'certain citizens', who've committed 'certain crimes'.

So that most other citizens will sit quietly in the corner and hope to not call attention to themselves.

Meanwhile the scale and scope of who's counted as undesirable; who's going to be impacted, will continue to grow as their ability to process the 'undesirables' grows. This will go until the set of undesirables includes everyone not actively working for 'The Party'