(but few cases are likely to succeed)
According to the New York Times, USCIS has asked field offices to field offices to supply the Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month. If these cases were successful it would spark an unprecidented number of denaturalizations, but the fact is that citizenship can only be taken away in very narrow circumstances. The Supreme Court has ruled that the government must prove not only that someone had lied during the citizenship application process but that the lie had an impact on the underlying citizenship claim.
This quote from the article sums it up well: “My fear would be that as we have seen in the arrest and removal context when D.H.S. employees are given arbitrary targets what happens is people who shouldn’t be swept up, get swept up and that you’re going to see that happening to people in this context as well,” said Margy O’Herron, a senior fellow at the Brennan Center, a nonpartisan law and policy organization. “That could incite fear and terror amongst naturalized citizens.”
The article is here:
Posted: to Citizenship News on Thu, Dec 18, 2025
Updated: Thu, Dec 18, 2025