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Law used to kick out Nazis could be used to strip citizenship from many more Americans
- On June 11, the Justice Department memo instructed U.S. attorneys to ramp up denaturalization efforts, aiming to repurpose an anti-Nazi law originally used against Nazi collaborators.
- Following the June 11 memo, the Justice Department aims to expand denaturalization beyond undocumented immigrants to naturalized citizens, targeting threats to national security.
- CNN reports that officials warn the broad memo could enable vague claims, aligning with hardline policies to target a wider group risking national security.
- The memo risks affecting millions of naturalized citizens, with experts warning it could politicize citizenship and chill free speech.
- Rep. Andy Ogles seeks DOJ investigation into Ugandan-born politician Zohran Mamdani, with experts warning the memo could enable retroactive scrutiny of naturalized citizens' eligibility.
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For decades, the US Department of Justice has used a tool to uncover former Nazis who lied to become American citizens: a law that allowed the Department to denaturalize, or strip, the citizenship of criminals who falsified their documents or hid their past "on the other side of the law."
Trump administration wants to expand anti-Nazi law to target critics: report
Based upon a memo issued by the Justice Department last month, Donald Trump's administration wants to ramp up efforts to purge the country not only of undocumented immigrants but also naturalized citizens.CNN is reporting that the president's DOJ has been examining ways to expand the scope of a law ...
'Flatly inconsistent with our democratic system': Trump DOJ eyes anti-Nazi law to expel Americans
CNN reports the U.S. Department of Justice is looking to repurpose an old anti-Nazi law to ensnare targets of the Trump administration.The statute is part of a McCarthy-era law first established to remove communists during the “red scare” of the 1950s, but CNN reports it has primarily been used to remove war criminals. In 1979, the Justice Department established a unit that used the statute to deport hundreds of people who assisted Germany’s Naz…
For decades, the U.S. Department of Justice has used a tool to uncover ex-Nazis who lied to become U.S. citizens: a law that allowed the department to denaturalize or dispossess falsifying criminals from citizenship.
By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN For decades, the US Department of Justice has used a tool to ferret out ex-Nazis who lied to become US citizens: a law that allowed the department to denaturalize, or strip, criminals who falsified their records or concealed their illicit past. That power, under the new Trump administration, may be expanding. According to a memo issued by the Justice Department last month, lawyers should target their denaturalization wo…
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