The United States’ Justice Department is aggressively prioritizing efforts to strips some Americans of their U S citizenship.
Department leadership is directing its attorneys to prioritize denaturalized citizens who commit certain crimes and giving destrict attorneys wider discretion in when to pursue this tactic, according to a June 11 memo published online.
The move is aimed at U.S citizens who were not born in the country. According to data from 2023, close to 25 million immigrants were naturalized citizens.
At least one person has already been denaturalized in recent weeks. On June 13, a Judge ordered the revocation of the citizenship of Elliott Duke, who uses they/them pronouns
Duke is an American military veteran originally from the U.K, who was convicted for disturbing child sexual abuse in material -something they later admitted they were doing prior to becoming a U.S citizen.
Denaturalized is meant to strip citizenship from those who may have lied about their criminal convictions or membership in illegal groups like the Nazi party, or communists during McCarthyism, in their citizenship applications.
-9News Nigeria.
