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Justice Department Seeks to Denaturalize 25 Americans for Lies

8/14/2026

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Federal prosecutors moved to strip citizenship from 25 naturalized Americans for alleged lies.
The Justice Department, which lists denaturalization as a priority, filed more denaturalization complaints after President Donald Trump returned, which Professor Cassandra Burke Robertson says treats denaturalization as an end-goal.
The cases target national-security matters such as former Nazi camp guards and war-on-terror suspects, which the Supreme Court says require proof of misstatement for federal-court trials.

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Federal prosecutors moved to strip citizenship from 25 naturalized Americans for alleged lies.
The Justice Department, which lists denaturalization as a priority, filed more denaturalization complaints after President Donald Trump returned, which Professor Cassandra Burke Robertson says treats denaturalization as an end-goal.
The cases target national-security matters such as former Nazi camp guards and war-on-terror suspects, which the Supreme Court says require proof of misstatement for federal-court trials.