07/02/2025

DOJ Memo Pushes for Broader Effort to Revoke Naturalized U.S. Citizenship

They want to expand the crimes eligible for revocation review

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has laid out new guidelines encouraging its attorneys to seek to strip U.S. citizenship from those who have naturalized if they have committed various crimes.

The June 11 memo tells attorneys in its civil division to move to strip citizenship from immigrants if they pose a threat to national security or gained the status through fraud by failing to acknowledge past crimes.

But the memo lists a number of other qualifying crimes, adding that attorneys can prioritize denaturalization even for those who are facing "pending criminal charges" that have not yet secured a conviction.

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