“To see that this admin is plotting out how they're going to expand its use in ways that we have not seen before is very shocking & very concerning,”said Sameera Hafiz, policy director of the Immigration Legal Resource Center, a national advocacy org providing legal training in #immigration #law.

“It is…in a way trying to create a second class of US citizens:”where one set of #Americans is safe & those not born in the country are still at risk of losing their hard-fought #citizenship, she said.

🚨In #civil proceedings, any individual subject to #denaturalization is NOT entitled to an #attorney, Robertson said; there is also a lower #BurdenOfProof for the govt to reach, & it is far easier & faster to reach a conclusion in these cases.

Robertson says that stripping Americans of citizenship through civil litigation violates #DueProcess & infringes on the rights guaranteed by the #14thAmendment.

#law #immigration#Constitution

…Acc/to this new memo, the #DOJ is also expanding its criteria of which #crimes put individuals at risk of losing their #citizenship. That includes #NationalSecurity violations & committing acts of #fraud against individuals or against the government, like Paycheck Protection Program loan fraud or Medicaid or Medicare fraud.

#law #immigration#DueProcess#Constitution#14thAmendment

#Denaturalization is a tactic that was heavily used during the #McCarthy era of the late 1940's & the early 1950's & one that was expanded during the #Obama admin & grew further during #Trump's first term. It's meant to strip #citizenship from those who may have lied about their #criminal convictions or membership in illegal groups like the #Nazi party, or #communists during #McCarthyism, on their citizenship applications.

#law #immigration

The move is aimed at #US #citizens not born in the country;…close to 25M #immigrants [are] #naturalized citizens.

At least one person has already been denaturalized. On June 13, a judge ordered the revocation of Elliott Duke’s #citizenship, who uses they/them pronouns. Duke is an #American #military #veteran originally from the #UK who was convicted for distributing child sexual abuse material—something they later admitted they were doing prior to becoming a US citizen.

#law #immigration#DOJ

SCOTUS to rule today on 6 major cases:

Birthright citizenship – Are American Samoans citizens by birth?

Trump immunity – Are ex-presidents immune from prosecution?

Purdue Pharma – Can Sacklers be shielded in opioid deal?

Abortion – Must ERs provide emergency abortions?

Censorship – Did feds unlawfully pressure social media?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rulings-birthright-citizenship-5-cases-final-day-rcna215246
#SupremeCourt#Trump#OpioidCrisis#AbortionRights#FreeSpeech#Citizenship#SCOTUS