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The Trump administration has codified its efforts to strip some Americans of their US citizenship in a recently published justice department memo that directs attorneys to prioritize denaturalization for naturalized citizens who commit certain crimes.

The memo, published on 11 June, calls on attorneys in the department to institute civil proceedings to revoke a person’s United States citizenship if an individual either “illegally procured” naturalization or procured naturalization by “concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation”.

At the center of the move are the estimated 25 million US citizens who immigrated to the country after being born abroad, according to data from 2023 – and it lists 10 different priority categories for denaturalization.

According to the memo, those subjected to civil proceedings are not entitled to an attorney like they are in criminal cases. And the government has a lighter burden of proof in civil cases than they do in criminal ones.

Edit: According to the Miami Herald, it depends on where you live:

The Supreme Court’s ruling means the judges’ injunctions blocking Trump’s executive order only affect the jurisdictions where immigrant groups filed their lawsuits — leaving the rest of the country, including Florida, subject to the president’s citizenship order. The turn of events is likely to lead to more federal lawsuits, including a class action case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union in New Hampshire on Friday.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The memo, published on 11 June, calls on attorneys in the department to institute civil proceedings to revoke a person’s United States citizenship if an individual either “illegally procured” naturalization or procured naturalization by “concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation”.

Ironically, this exactly describes Elon Musk's situation where he was misrepresenting that he was on a student visa while he was working on a startup. Which would be a willful misrepresentation and grounds to have his citizenship revoked.

It's also a blank check to selective enforcement when any material fact discrepancy can be investigated and used to target any recent immigrants.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yep, people all think that a criminal history means they did something bad like robbing a store or assaulting people. It's not, it could be that they were here illegally for 6 months before they became legal.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yo my dudes, gonna do something at some point? Should be riots everywhere by now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Ah. And it all falls into place.

All that will be left once they get this established is to expand it a bit more, so that any citizen can be stripped of their cirizenship, and thus of their rights, and thus made subject to ICE's authority and legally shipped off to a foreign concentration camp

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So, what happens to those people's status regarding their statehood? We can't force their prior country to re-instate their citizenship.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Supreme Court ruled that they don't even need to send them to the prior country that they came from. So likely indefinite detention and trafficking paid for by the U.S. government until the headlines cease

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

They go to El Salvador or another holding location. Presumably to work.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How about no...when do we get out and just tell them no? They can run us over with tanks, drop bomb, etc. Its coming, just a matter of when the civil war starts, and who fires the first shot. If they dont want to participate faithfully in the United States, and give preferential treatment, withhold disaster aid funding, etc, then whats the point of being part of the Union?

These fuck heads think we'll just run scared with our tail between our legs, and thats not true. Nobody wins in a civil war, but thats what they're gonna get.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, because that's not at all fascist in the slightest...

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (5 children)

You have guns and a 2nd amendment. Strap up! This is the exact reason millions upon millions of Americans viciously defend Line item number 2 in your constitution: To fight tyranny.

If you don’t, all those years of defending it will be all for naught.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Very much so

Leave if you can

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