U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials focused on denaturalization were sent to offices nationwide, sources say.
  • Drusas@fedia.io
    6·
    4 小时前

    There are growing concerns that the DHS effort is more about creating fear and less about successfully stripping citizenship. Even if Americans swept up in investigations aren’t prosecuted or convicted, the process takes a financial and emotional toll; they’d have to hire lawyers and produce documents.

    Margy O’Herron, a senior fellow in the liberty and national security program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School, said the mere threat of denaturalization creates real terror.

    “Citizens are afraid that if they do or say something the government doesn’t like — even if those things are lawful and protected by the Constitution — they will be a target,” she said.

    Sounds likely to me.

  • deliciEsteva@piefed.worldEnglish
    61·
    6 小时前

    Take it, please. I’ve been looking for a “get out of citizenship free” card. This would be a dream come true. I’d finally have a free slot to get dual citizenship somewhere nice. Maybe even somewhere with less fascist pedos in charge.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      51·
      4 小时前

      Being stateless tends not to work out so well. Other countries don’t suddenly decide to offer citizenship to those in need.

  • ClownStatue@piefed.socialEnglish
    16·
    9 小时前

    Most foreign born Americans. I have a feeling there’s already a list of people who can stay. A short one. Populated by billionaire conservatives and eastern European former models.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
    68·
    13 小时前

    Notice the terminology. Working to expand effort means that they are going ahead with that plan. This is not a drill.

  • WesternInfidels@feddit.onlineEnglish
    31·
    12 小时前

    If you have some citizens with real citizenship and other citizens with provisional, revocable citizenship, then you have created a system, both in theory and in practice, with first-class and second-class citizens.

    Yet I have a feeling those of us who really were born here are never going to have a citizenship advantage over the likes of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Patrick Soon-Shiong, and so on.

      • WesternInfidels@feddit.onlineEnglish
        1·
        22 分钟前

        I’m not a lawyer, but I don’t think I buy that as a comparison. Revocation of statutory citizenship would presumably come from an act of congress, revoking the citizenship of whole classes of people at once. The administration is going after naturalized (constitutional) citizens in a systematic way. It’s not happening at a scale that has any policy-level meaning in a country as large as this, but it can create fear and uncertainty, a feeling of precariousness.

  • Typhoon@lemmy.ca
    25·
    13 小时前

    What else did you think they were building all those massive concentration camps for?

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      51 分钟前

      I just checked and US military bases do not count as “US Soil” the same way embassies do. Yeah, the legal status of any “base brat” is now in question.

  • red_green_black@slrpnk.netEnglish
    10·
    13 小时前

    Ok so the expansion plan is the justices department pushing to have any naturalized citizen lose their citizenship if they commit a crime.

    It’s a BS policy (personally I think citizenship should be rendered impossible to revoke) but that is my understanding of the plan

    • inari@piefed.zipEnglish
      1·
      8 小时前

      Usually the only grounds for revoking citizenship is fraud during the citizenship acquisition process, which I think seems a fair rule

      • red_green_black@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        6 小时前

        Yes but for this administration being anti-government is fraud. Because only fake people from terrorist groups, foreign advisers, and “George Soros.” Would ever be against the US government (sarcasm)