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What to Make of the Justice Department’s Denaturalization Initiative | Lawfare

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The upcoming main navigation can be gotten through utilizing the tab key. Any buttons that open a sub navigation can be triggered by the space or enter key. Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With On June 11, Brett Shumate, the head of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, issued a memorandum setting forth five enforcement priorities. One that attracted much attention was “Prioritizing Denaturalization”—that is, stripping citizenship from Americans who were not born as citizens. That section, in turn, listed a further set of priorities for which denaturalization cases to bring. How worrisome is this? The answer—not a satisfying one—is that it may be too soon to say. The memorandum, like so much of the Trump administration’s unrelenting assault on immigration, raises several questions. To what extent are “priorities” purporting to guide immigration enforcement real, or just window-dressing for a zero-tolerance effort to root out all illegality? How many innocen

Eric Columbus EricColumbus ericcolumbus.bsky.social Meet The Authors Subscribe to Lawfare On June 11, Brett Shumate, the head of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, issued a memorandum setting forth five enforcement priorities. One that attracted much attention was "Prioritizing Denaturalization"-that is, stripping citizenship from Americans who were not born as citizens. That section, in turn, listed a further set of priorities for which denaturalization cases to bring. How worrisome is this? The answer-not a satisfying one-is that it may be too soon to say. The memorandum, like

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