President Trump on Sunday said that he would “absolutely” denaturalize certain Americans if he could.
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What they’re saying: “We have criminals that came into our country and they were naturalized maybe through [former President Joe] Biden or somebody that didn’t know what they were doing,” Trump told reporters on Sunday.
- “If I have the power to do it — I’m not sure that I do, but if I do — I would denaturalize, absolutely.”
- Trump also repeated previous anti-immigrant comments, criticizing people from Somalia who have been living in the U.S., and threatening to pause new asylum claims for “a long time.”
- “We don’t want those people. Does that make sense? You know why we don’t want them? Because many have been no good and they shouldn’t be in our country.”
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Flashback: The U.S. Department of Justice is now prioritizing stripping naturalized Americans of their citizenship when charged with certain crimes, according to a June memo.
Yes, but: For revocation of naturalization, the U.S. Attorney’s Office needs to file charges in federal court.
- “The government holds a high burden of proof when attempting to revoke a person’s naturalization,” per U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
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The Justice Department directed attorneys this summer to prioritize denaturalization in cases where naturalized citizens commit specific crimes.
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By the numbers: From 1990 to 2017, the DOJ filed 305 denaturalization cases, about 11 per year, according to The Miami Herald.
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Since January 2017, the USCIS has selected some 2,500 cases for possible denaturalization and referred at least 110 denaturalization cases to the Justice Department for prosecution by the end of August 2018.
At least one person was denaturalized after a conviction this year.
- That person was a convicted collector and distributor of child sexual abuse material who immigrated from the United Kingdom, per the Justice Department.
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