NPR: Trump vowed to revoke hundreds of citizenships. It's proving harder to do
NPR reports that the Trump administration has vowed to increase denaturalize some naturalized citizens. The messaging raises concerns among immigrant advocates, legal scholars and naturalized Americans about the potential for abuse. NPR found that the cases filed so far indicate that they are more limited than the rhetoric suggests because of legal and practical constraints on denaturalization. NPR examined 34 denaturalization cases that the Department of Justice filed or resolved as of last month.
The report quotes immigration law professor Daniel Kanstroom; he is not "seeing a major surge of worrisome denaturalizations." "I'm not seeing a major surge of worrisome denaturalizations. To me, it's not at the level of an emergency."
Law professor Cassandra Robertson largely agrees denaturalization cases are hard to bring but worries about the implications of the Trump administration using denaturalization more broadly than prior administrations have.
