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NYT: Trump Admin Ramping Up Efforts to Denaturalize Immigrants

HeadlineDec 18, 2025

The Trump administration is ramping up efforts to strip hundreds of naturalized immigrants of their citizenship each month. That’s according to a report in The New York Times, which found internal guidance issued this week to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices asks that they “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” in the next fiscal year. The Times reports it would represent a massive escalation of denaturalization in the modern era.

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