Trump Team Wants To Strip At Least 250 Americans Of Their Citizenship This Year: Report

The Trump administration reportedly wants to denaturalize astatine slightest 250 Americans this year, stripping them of their citizenship and priming them for deportation.

This would correspond a monolithic spike successful denaturalization cases.

The Biden management revenge conscionable 24 denaturalization cases crossed 4 years, and location were 166 of these cases put connected nan books betwixt 2008 and June 2026.

Denaturalization cases and analyzable and time-consuming, and past administrations person focused connected pursuing them against individuals blameworthy of superior crimes aliases fraud successful nan citizenship process.

“People who sewage a parking summons — that’s not going to beryllium personification that we’re going to attraction our resources connected and whitethorn not moreover suffice for denaturalization nether nan statute,” a elder DOJ official told CNN, which first reported connected nan plan. “It’s really astir uncovering group who person committed superior fraud against nan United States and identifying those individuals and proceeding arsenic quickly arsenic we can.”

The effort to ramp up denaturalizations has led nan DOJ to propulsion attorneys from different duties, CNN reports.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has besides reportedly transferred agency lawyers to nan DOJ to assistance pinch nan effort.

Justice Department officials person compiled a wider database of astatine slightest 385 citizens who are targets for denaturalization, The New York Times reported successful April.

President Donald Trump has been signaling since he returned to agency that a denaturalization crackdown was successful nan works.

In a January 2025 executive order, he called connected national officials to attraction connected denaturalizations, and a June 2025 DOJ memo urged nan department’s attorneys to “prioritize and maximally prosecute denaturalization proceedings.”

The Independent has contacted nan DOJ for comment.

The management has grounded to deed its precocious migration targets before.

Immigration officials reportedly urged agencies specified arsenic Immigration and Customs Enforcement and nan Border Patrol to carry retired 3,000 migration arrests per day, though nan management has not yet deed that goal.

The Trump management has utilized a assortment of methods to make seeking U.S. residency much difficult.

It is looking to unit impermanent immigrants seeking greenish cards to wait successful their location countries arsenic they activity imperishable U.S. residency, a determination that could adhd years of hold and separation from their family members for those hoping to return to nan country.

The management besides functionally unopen down nan asylum process, though a national judge struck down a slate of asylum moves earlier this month, targeting policies that blocked asylum, delayed aliases denied green paper applications, and slowed citizenship hearings for nationals of astir 40 countries.

The ruling recovered that nan management had illegally discriminated against “countless” immigrants by categorically barring asylum seekers, greenish paper applicants and group seeking citizenship “solely by nan happenstance of their birth.”

The management is besides reportedly processing a scheme to fast-track asylum rejections by skipping nan accepted asylum question and reply successful immoderate cases.

Most strikingly, nan management is seeking to extremity nan constitutionally protected correct of birthright citizenship via executive order.

The Supreme Court is currently reviewing nan policy.