The Department of Justice has issued new directives aimed at stripping naturalized U.S. citizens of their status if they are accused of committing a crime or of posing a threat to the United States. A DOJ memo published earlier this month said naturalized citizens subjected to these “civil proceedings” would also not be entitled to an attorney. There are an estimated 25 million naturalized citizens living in the U.S. 

This comes as, in an unprecedented move, Trump’s Department of Homeland Security has built a national citizenship surveillance database, in collaboration with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, to store information from federal immigration agencies and the Social Security Administration.