After The New York Times reported that the US Department of Justice will seek to revoke the citizenship of more than 350 peopleuncertainty has grown over the Donald Trump administration’s plan to expand these processes.
The outlet obtained statements from two Trump administration officials, who indicated that they would soon civil lawsuits will be filed to begin the denaturalization process against those indicated.
It is presumed that the more than 350 people who could have their citizenship revoked They are individuals with alleged ties to the terrorism, drug trafficking, human trafficking or linked to public aid fraud.
However, How does the United States initiate a denaturalization process against a person?
According to media such as EFE and the US government, in order for the government to revoke a person’s citizenship, it must prove before a court that the indicated individual obtained it fraudulently or illegally.
One of the examples raised by the EFE agency is when a person would have hidden their background penalties for crimes or offenses that would have qualified her as “someone unfit” to have citizenship.
However, this process can only be carried out with “naturalized citizens”that is, individuals who were not born in the US and who obtained citizenship after immigrating to US territory.
On the other hand, in order for a person to obtain US citizenship, they must present “good moral character”a term that, according to experts, is not fully defined in the law, which can lead to citizenship being revoked for actions such as protesting.
Now, the Department of Justice told The New York Times that Donald Trump’s administration is looking for options to “achieve the highest volume” of citizenship revocations throughout the country’s history.
This is not the first time that the Trump Administration has sought options to expedite these processes, since in July of last year the Department of Justice issued a memorandum in which requested the Civil Affairs Division to focus on these types of cases.