DOJ moves to strip fraudsters, sex offenders, and drug dealers of US citizenship in ‘unprecedented’ denaturalization surge

The federal government is moving to denaturalize more than a dozen “criminal aliens” for allegedly lying about their past crimes, including child sexual abuse, fraud, and drug dealing, during the naturalization process. Officials with the Justice Department told the Washington Examiner that the denaturalization actions, announced on Monday, are “unprecedented.” The suspects include convicts originally from Somalia, Haiti, Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, and Jamaica who are accused of withholding information from immigration authorities that would have made them ineligible to receive citizenship. Federal law has long allowed the government to try to denaturalize foreign-born U.S. citizens who officials believe committed fraud...