Opinion: The Trump administration’s next target: naturalized US citizens Opinion by Steven Lubet
Much has been said about President-Elect Trump’s mass deportation plans. Steve Lubet in The Hill reminds us that the Trump administration may, as it did during his first term, seek to denaturalize citizens and remove them from teh country. He writes:
“Stephen Miller [has been named] deputy chief of staff for policy . . . .
Miller is likely to be especially influential and especially brutal.
`America is for Americans only,’ he shouted at Trump’s Madison Square Garden campaign rally. In a pre-election interview, he outlined a sweeping plan to use the National Guard, state and local police, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and even the U.S. military to round up undocumented immigrants and detain them in tent camps until they can be expelled.
But even `documented’ immigrants will not be safe, because Miller has declared that he will pursue the seldom-used process of `denaturalization’ to go after people who have been citizens for years or decades, based on suspicions about purported fraud on their naturalization applications. Individuals stripped of citizenship will then be subject to deportation along with Miller’s other targets.”
Steven Lubet is the author of The Trials of Rasmea Odeh: How a Palestinian Guerrilla Gained and Lost U.S. Citizenship.
The new Deputy Chief Of Staff….
Stephen Miller wants to push forward denaturalization, which is the removal of citizenship of citizens who immigrated to the U.S.
Denaturalization is when a person who has become a naturalized U.S. citizen has their citizenship revoked,… https://t.co/VjgoCUAOTq pic.twitter.com/GY5p5YzfGs
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