Trump team is pushing to yank American citizenship from more foreign-born people

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Thursday 18 December 2025 08:29 EST


The Trump administration is planning to strip more foreign-born Americans of their citizenship, marking the latest escalation in the president’s crackdown on immigration, according to a new report.

Guidance provided to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices requests that they “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” in 2026, The New York Times reported.

Individuals may only be legally stripped of their U.S. citizenship for a few specific reasons, such as if they committed fraud during the citizenship application process. Historically, this has been a rare occurrence. Less than 200 cases had been filed in the past eight years. And between 1990 and 2017, the federal government brought an average of 11 cases, according to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.

But, the Trump administration — which has pledged to carry out the largest deportation program in American history — has sought to use every available mechanism to target immigrants. “It’s no secret that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ war on fraud includes prioritizing those who’ve unlawfully obtained U.S. citizenship — especially under the previous administration,” Matthew Tragesser, a USCIS. spokesman, told the Times.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-remove-american-citizenship-foreign-born-b2887007.html

[sdfernando]

1. Well we all know that Malaria

didn't/doesn't rise to the level of genius..
So she should be one of the first to go.

[2naSalit]

3. Leon Skum is another who got his...

Through fraud too.

[2naSalit]

2. You know...

I'd almost be okay with it if the WH burned down and the shitneck supreme and his minions were inside and couldn't get out.

[mwb970]

5. Sounds good!

[mwb970]

4. I *like* immigrants! trump's bigotry and intolerance make me sick.

[Mira]

6. My naturalization certificate is in my house's safe

I plan to take it out and carry it on my body. Though I'm not sure that all the ICE agents can read, my clearly white skin may keep me safe a little longer. Also, I don't have Melanoma's inability to lose an accent.

[VMA131Marine]

10. I carry my U.S. passport around with me all the time

I shouldn’t need to, obviously, since I was naturalised 40 years ago AND I’m a veteran. I just don’t trust Trump as far as I can throw his corpulent presence.

[FakeNoose]

7. Are they talking about the children of service members, who were deployed when the children were born?

Because that's what it sounds like, they're going after the children of American parents who enlisted in the military, and shipped overseas. Some of those military personnel were married and became parents while they served in the armed forces. Their kids are just as American as any of us who were born here!

[Bayard]

14. That would include my niece and her husband

Stationed in Germany when my great-niece was born. Oh, and horrors--her husband is also Hispanic, but born in Calif.

[AverageOldGuy]

8. Children of American military personnel who were born abroad . . .

That is, the CHILDREN were born outside the US, not the military personnel.

I was on active duty 1967 - 1995. Both my children were born In Germany in a military hospital. The hospital gave us a birth certificate which we took to the US Consulate in Frankfurt where we were issued a Consular Report of US Citizen Born Abroad.

My children are now in their late 50's, both of them keep the original of that document in safe deposit box and keep copies at home. Both have US passports. My son was on active duty for 21 years during which he held very high security clearances and special access

Neither my son or daughter are fans of Trump and are outspoken about it. Now they wonder if he will come after them because of their social media comments and attempt to revoke their citizenship.

This shit cannot stand. But it may.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. And that would have included John McCain

whose father was in the military and his son John was born in Panama (and at an off base hospital too IIRC). That whole thing came up during the birther nonsense going on when he was running against Obama.

[Polybius]

11. Ted Cruz is another variant

Although his case is a lot different.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. He's already a bizarro case

and neither parent was in the military when he was born in Canada (and his father wasn't a U.S. citizen either).

[Polybius]

13. I think there's a good chance that he's ineligible

Not sure what the courts would say, however.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. He made a big ado about "officially" renouncing his Canadian citizenship

when he was considering a run in the 2016 GOP clown car primary - Ted Cruz Renounces Newly Discovered Canadian Citizenship