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Original Date Announced
December 17, 2025The New York Times reports that the Trump administration issued guidance to USCIS field offices requesting that they "supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month" in the 2026 fiscal year. The increase in denaturalization cases would represent a massive escalation. By comparison, just over 120 cases have been filed between 2017 and 2025; this year, the DOJ has brought 13 denaturalization cases and won 8. A USCIS spokesperson stated that USCIS will prioritize individuals who "unlawfully obtained U.S. citizenship," and that USCIS will “pursue denaturalization proceedings for those individuals lying or misrepresenting themselves during the naturalization process.”
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2025.12.17 Reported: Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship - The New York TimesEffective Date
December 17, 2025Current Status
NoneOriginal Trump Policy Status
Status: ReportedTrump Administration Action: Agency DirectiveSubject Matter: NaturalizationAssociated or Derivative Policies
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2026.02.12 NBC - Trump Administration Working to Expand Effort to Strip Citizenship from Foreign-Born Americans
NBC News reports that over the past several months, USCIS has been sending experts to its offices around the country or reassigning staff members to focus on denaturalization. Possible offenses justifying denaturalization provided by the DOJ to attorneys include national security threats, war crimes or torture, and Medicaid or Medicare fraud or other forms of fraud against the government, as well as “any other cases ... that the division determines to be sufficiently important to pursue.” So far in Trump’s second term, sixteen cases have been filed and the Administration has won seven of those.
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