Twelve naturalized Americans learned today that the Justice Department began the process of stripping their citizenship.
The twelve are indefensible. The lead case is a Colombian priest accused of sexually abusing a child. They were picked on purpose, because the public face of a new program needs to look impossible to argue with.
For 27 years the federal government filed fewer than one of these cases per month. The internal directive USCIS got in December asks field offices to send 100 to 200 referrals per month to federal prosecutors. Today’s twelve are the rollout. The administration is finding out whether it can strip citizenship from naturalized Americans by the thousand.
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