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.
– Undocumented immigrants are drug traffickers and violent criminals!
– Any undocumented immigrant committed a crime just by being here! Deport them all!
– Documented immigrants who espouse un-American views should have their status revoked and be deported!
–>Citizens who were from abroad, if we believe they went through naturalization improperly should be deported! (America is here)
– Being born here shouldn’t mean a free ticket to citizenship!
– You don’t deserve to have a US citizenship if you aren’t on Team America!!!
That sounds like musk to me… Please deport musk
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.
Also Melania with her Einstein visa.
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.
Elon Musk misrepresented his visa back in the day and was therefore technically illegal for a period, so at the very least he should get dropped in the emerald mines.
So, what happens to those people’s status regarding their statehood? We can’t force their prior country to re-instate their citizenship.
Yo my dudes, gonna do something at some point? Should be riots everywhere by now
Where do you live?
Paris, France
So you’ve taken part in Paris riots? Did anything you were a part of change to more your liking?
Yes. Not on everything but at least we tried. Also we don’t have an openly fascist régime or a convicted felon rapist as a president. Not saying we’re good but at least we’re trying.
Did you see that we had a 6 million people, peaceful protest? If those turned into riots, so many people would have been murdered by our government and “with justification.” Riots are what the government wants. They’re itching for reasons to take over democratic cities. We’re different.
Y’all in deep shit yes. I don’t see your democratic cities staying democratic long, from an external eye. Protests should have happened even before the election. That’s just my comment.
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.
That is what needs to happen. Unfortunately the issue is that they start with messaging like this to make the vast majority of the country think they’re safe.
Its only going to be ‘certain citizens’, who’ve committed ‘certain crimes’.
So that most other citizens will sit quietly in the corner and hope to not call attention to themselves.
Meanwhile the scale and scope of who’s counted as undesirable; who’s going to be impacted, will continue to grow as their ability to process the ‘undesirables’ grows. This will go until the set of undesirables includes everyone not actively working for ‘The Party’
