Donald Trump’s administration is moving immigration lawyers to the Department of Justice to expedite denaturalization cases against U.S. citizens.
Last year, the Justice Department announced the president’s plan to “prioritize and maximally pursue” cases against American citizens, marking a radical expansion of Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
Efforts to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans — people who were not born in America but become citizens — accelerated earlier this year, with instructions that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recommend “100-200 denaturalization cases per month” in 2026.
USCIS is now temporarily transferring a group of agency lawyers to the Justice Department to speed up those cases, USCIS officials told The Independent. Axios first reported the effort.
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A spokesperson for the Justice Department told The Independent that the agency is welcoming “Special U.S. Attorneys from all federal departments and agencies and state and local partners that are willing to work with us to advance the President’s mission to promote public safety and root out fraud — whether it’s program fraud or immigration fraud.”
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The Justice Department also noted that lawyers may pursue denaturalization in “any other cases” that officials believe are “sufficiently important to pursue.”
Roughly 25 million people in the United States are naturalized citizens.
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The historically administrative agency under Trump-appointed director Joseph Edlow has implemented several restrictive measures since taking over the agency last year, including new guidance that forces immigrants who are temporarily in the U.S. to return to their home countries while seeking a green card.
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