After The New York Times reported that the administration had identified 384 foreign-born Americans as targets for denaturalization, Fox News host Will Cain asked Vice President JD Vance in an interview, “Could the law lead you to a place where we’d see accountability in the form of denaturalization or deportation from people who come to this country, legally or illegally, and take advantage of America?” Vance responded that the administration would “absolutely” be looking at how to denaturalize citizens and claimed that under the Biden administration there was a “big blurring of the lines between illegal and legal immigration.”
According to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, denaturalization has historically been rare. It is typically only used in cases in which there is proof that a person was naturalized when they were not eligible, for example if a person misrepresented or concealed information during the naturalization process that would disqualify them from U.S. citizenship.
But in June 2025, the Trump Department of Justice released a policy memo expanding the administration’s “priorities for denaturalization.” The memo not only outlines new categories of immigrants who could be prioritized for denaturalization, but specifically warns that “the Civil Division retains the discretion to pursue cases outside of these categories as it determines appropriate.”
The official DHS twitter account tweeted not too long ago that they want to deport 100 million people. There aren’t that many immigrants in the US in total, naturalized or otherwise. The inescapable conclusion is that they intend to strip citizenship even from natural-born citizens who they decide are their political enemies.
Can’t imagine losing 1/3 of your population would have any larger ramifications elsewhere.
Yeah Trump is trying to redefine to whom birthright citizenship should apply. He is actually the only sitting president to attend the SCOTUS oral arguments, and he did that over the birthright citizenship executive order. So it wouldn’t be a surprise if they’re including the people they don’t think should have been considered natural born in that number.
Hard to see how even scotus would find a reason to betray an amendment of the constitution, which they don’t have the authority to do. But they’ve done it for decades on other amendments so we will see. They think the republic is dead already, it’s only us citizens that are still contesting it.
But with the scotus decision to disallow nationwide injunctions, there is nothing to stop the administration, or a future one, from rounding people up illegally and doing whatever with them.
I thought the ramifications of that decision would have been obvious but everyone is still oblivious, I’m sick of explaining it in detail.
Roberts and his fascist cronies have done it before. Consider what they’ve done to nullify the equal protection clause, the emoluments clause, and much of the 14th Amendment.
Even before, before most of us were born, the 4th amendment was in effect cancelled to a large degree. The 10th obviously has long long been dishonored with an ever more powerful federal government disallowed in the bill of rights, the 5th amendment with asset forfeitures without due process of law. I am forgetting something here too.
This court is just not pretending anymore, but this has been a half century in the making.
8th is long dead
Indeed and I should add, the 6th is in effect Dishonored as well, as a grand jury used to be a check on unwarranted prosecutions, but they have changed what a grand jury is and how it operates so it is now a tool of prosecutors. That’s what happens when you let lawyers run a country.
Obviously we are just scraping the surface here arguably the 9th, the 14th, I think the 15th, I need to brush up on it all.
The reality is that if even one of the rights can be removed, then they were never rights to begin with, just temporary privelages.
We are at the cusp of a 55 year long game to kill the republic. We had those rights, the republic is captured by gangsters in the employ of corporations and the super rich.