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.”
In the same way that the solution to the Tolerance Paradox is to not tolerate intolerance, such threats to strip citizenship away from naturalised individuals should result in the would-be perpetrator’s citizenships being denaturalised instead. There should be no room for such hatred in modern society.
Conspiring to deprive others of their rights, or actually taking steps to do so, should be a very dangerous thing to do.
I’ll be honest, I’ve had thought experiments of where we go from here once this is all over. I cannot think of anything that doesn’t result in either prolonged right wing terrorism or their projections being practiced on them. I’m not calling for harm, but man, they’ve backed themselves and everyone else into an uneasy corner.
The last year and a half has finally made me understand why “re-education camps” have been tried.
I mean, what else can you do? How are we supposed to live side by side with people who literally want our friends and loved ones dead?
It wouldn’t take long if you removed fox news. Studies have shown just supplanting fox news with corporate media leads to rapid de-radicalization. They of course go back to that addictive fox news when the study is over, but it just shows that it can be done easier than we might believe.
I think people forget that these peoples viewpoints are being constantly reinforced everyday, multiple times a day.
As a trans person with jewish and indigenous ancestry, fuck them all. The entire empire must fall.
I am on team ‘fulfill projections on them’. I don’t want to start a fight, but I will finish it on terms that don’t suck for me and other decent people.
If blood has to be spilled, it should be conservative.
That’s the true “million dollar question”; what happens to the US if/when this wannabe-Fascist dictatorship falls apart (as all Fascist dictatorships eventually do).
I honestly don’t have high hopes that the US will retain its position as the sole global hegemonic power. We will inevitably transition back to a multi-polar world, bringing with it all of the uncertainty that it poses.
Either the US holds these perpetrators accountable and spends decades rebuilding trust in Government at all levels (unlikely), descends into Russian-style cronyism (most likely), or Balkanises (wildcard).