DOJ Announces “Largest Denaturalization Effort Ever”
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The Trump administration is following through on its pledge to strengthen immigration enforcement, with the Department of Justice accelerating efforts to strip U.S. citizenship from individuals accused of fraudulently obtaining naturalization.
Over the past two weeks, the Justice Department has filed 25 denaturalization complaints, marking a significant increase in enforcement actions against naturalized citizens alleged to have concealed serious criminal conduct or deceived the federal government during the citizenship process.
Brett Schumate, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Civil Division, said the administration is moving swiftly to hold offenders accountable.
“Every one of these individuals committed crimes incompatible with U.S. citizenship. We are moving at record speed to denaturalize those who sought to deceive the federal government and abuse the naturalization process,” Schumate said.
The Justice Department announced Monday it’s “largest denaturalization effort ever,” touting 25 new complaints filed in the past two weeks alone.
The department said it has filed complaints in multiple U.S. district courts against naturalized American citizens who have been convicted of serious offenses, including attempted first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and aggravated sexual assault of a child.
“Today marks the largest denaturalization surge in recorded history,” Assistant Attorney General for Justice Department’s Civil Division Brett Schumate said on X. “Every one of these individuals committed crimes incompatible with U.S. citizenship. We are moving at record speed to denaturalize those who sought to deceive the federal government and abuse the naturalization process.”
The department also noted that since the start of the second Trump administration, it has filed 123 civil denaturalization complaints, which it declares is the most in recorded history.
The 25 denaturalization complaints were filed between July 20 and August 3.
The individuals named in the complaints were originally from Pakistan, Moldova, India, Mexico, Colombia, Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana, Jamaica, Taiwan, Honduras, Cameroon, Jordan, Cuba, El Salvador, Haiti, and Sweden.
Since President Trump took office, the Department of Justice has filed a total of 88 denaturalization complaints.
The complaints against the 25 individuals, filed between July 20 and Aug. 3, involve naturalized U.S. citizens who are natives of 17 countries: Pakistan, Moldova, India, Mexico, Colombia, Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana, Jamaica, Taiwan, Honduras, Cameroon, Jordan, Cuba, El Salvador, Haiti and Sweden, Fox News Digital learned. The DOJ told Fox News Digital later Monday that it had added another case, raising the number of people facing denaturalization from 24 to 25.
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