Why Doesn’t America Denaturalize In The Thousands Like It Used To? |
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Why Doesn’t America Denaturalize In The Thousands Like It Used To?
There needs to be a massive denaturalization effort to rectify the mistaken awards of citizenship over the past 60 years.
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One of the policy goals conservatives most want the Trump administration to accomplish is mass deportations. Not just for illegals or those who have committed crimes, but also for those who have been granted citizenship and have proven themselves civilizationally unequipped to retain the privilege.
Earlier this week, the Department of Justice announced denaturalization actions against 17 persons “accused of serious offenses.” Almost all of the cases involve either some kind of fraud or the sexual abuse of a minor. In May, the department announced similar actions against 12 people accused of “terrorist support, war crimes, espionage, sexual abuse, and more.”
While it is important to remove every single person that matches those criteria in the country, periodical numbers like 17 and 12 do not seem to match expectations of the many more who might be — or should be — eligible for denaturalization and, ultimately, deportation.
Between 1907 and 1967, 22,000 citizens were denaturalized (an average of about 367 per year), which is reportedly more than any other democracy in the world at the time. There were other rules governing citizenship as well, such as women marrying foreign men automatically losing citizenship or anyone voting in a foreign election being stripped of the privilege as well. One could be denaturalized for supporting government regimes antithetical to the American constitutional order.
But none of that is the case anymore. From 1990 to 2018, only 130 denaturalization proceedings had been filed (or, seven per year on average). The downturn on denaturalization came at a time when there are exponentially more persons granted citizenship who have proven themselves unworthy of it.
[READ: Deporting Illegal Immigrants Is Not Enough]
Throughout American history, “the use of denaturalizing people has ebbed and flowed — it’s not quick, it’s not easy to do,” Lora Ries, Director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at the Heritage Foundation, told The Federalist. Ries explained that judges will often decide not to denaturalize citizens, even when they deserve it.
Denaturalization decisions are determined by federal courts, not immigration courts. However, similar to the way that immigration judges are “loath to deport aliens with green cards, even though lawful permanent residents are indeed deportable,” Ries said, “imagine the resistance to strip citizenship away.”
Denaturalizing was not always as difficult as it is now. Clear-cut cases of fraud or sexual abuse like the ones highlighted by the Department of Justice are........