A recent article by The New York Times points out that the Department of Justice seeks to revoke the citizenship of 384 foreign-born Americans.
This would be part of an initiative by the US government to accelerate the denaturation processby assigning the cases to dozens of prosecutors’ offices in the country.
According to the media, senior Justice Department officials in Washington reported, during a meeting that took place last week, that 39 regional offices will be assigned to denaturalization cases against the 384 Americans.
“Two people familiar with the plans confirmed the general effort to intensify denaturations“, said The New York Times.
However, the media points out that the reasons for Which authorities selected these Americans are unclear.
The media reports that, according to United States federal law, the Government can ask a court to citizenship is withdrawn whenever it involves “fraudulent” cases.
Examples of these cases, he points out The New York Timesare people who They have had a simulated marriage or have hidden information about their past.
The denaturation process It also applies to people who have committed different crimes.
These cases are normally assigned to experts from the Department of Justice’s Office of Immigration Litigation, but now the government seeks to promote these processes by involving regular prosecutors.
This, according to the media, would cause a considerable increase in revocations.
The New York Times states that these actions come after, months earlier, Trump administration officials ordered the Department of Homeland Security to send more than 200 citizenship revocation cases to the Department of Justice.
“The Department of Justice is totally focused on eradicating undocumented immigrants who they defraud the naturalization process“Matthew Tragesser, spokesperson for the Department of Justice, told the media.